Foods that we eat and their relationship to health

Tag: CANDAT

  • First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study

    We are a multi-organization research team (University of Northern British Columbia, University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal, Assembly of First Nations and Health Canada) that has used CANDAT since 2008. So far, we have used CANDAT to enter over 5000 single and repeated recalls. The software is easy to learn and use. One of our…

  • How can I identify when and where my subjects ate their food?

    The researcher can enter meal codes from 1 to 999. A typical way of using these codes is to set 1 to 9 as the first digit, 0 to 9 as the second digit and 0 to 9 as the third digit. For instance this could make 100 breakfast, 110 breakfast away, 111 breakfast at…

  • University of Guelph

    I have used Candat for many years for the analysis of 24 hour recall data, and for the development and subsequent analysis of food frequency questionnaires for two different studies. The range of analytic options provided by Candat, and the fact that it is based on the latest version of the Canadian Nutrient File, are…

  • University of PEI

    CANDAT is superior to other nutrient analysis programs because it is designed to accommodate the diverse needs of researchers. Being able to handle food recalls and records and food frequency questionnaires in the same program, to create user files of special food items not included in the CNF and to easily import files into statistical…

  • McGill University

    We use CANDAT because it is the best software giving access to the Canadian Nutrient File (CNF) that we have been able to find. It allows us to structure our data to provide the results that we need. For example, we have made consistent use of the food grouping capability that provides us with nutrients…

  • CANDAT Environment (GRASP)

    CANDAT has been developed in a consistent environment called GRASP. GRASP (General Reporting and Application Support Package) is an environment which contains standard mechanisms for communicating between the user and the computer. This allows for a consistent appearance of applications. GRASP assumes a well defined user area on the disk (usually created at installation) and…

  • Output to text files

    Most of the reports in CANDAT which can print on paper can also print to files. You are prompted for the file name and the file is created in your user area. Use eight characters only for file names, no spaces and no special characters. CANDAT will append an extension of .TXT to these files…

  • Reports

    Printing reports Reports produced by CANDAT can be sent to a printer, a file or, in the case of subject calculated data (task 340), to documented files. CANDAT is configured to print to LPT1 (or text files if you wish). The printer definition within CANDAT which ensures printing to LPT1 is called PRNTLPT1. It can…

  • Structure – Users

    CANDAT is licensed on a per computer basis. CANDAT may be installed on only those computers and networks for which it is licensed. It is possible for multiple users to use CANDAT simultaneously when installed in a network. You are only allowed the number of simultaneous users negotiated in your purchase agreement. Any one licence…

  • Food Files

    CANDAT uses as its Master file the Canadian Food file. This Master file is included with CANDAT. CANDAT can also accommodate a second or alternate Master food file (such as the USDA Handbook #8 file). Food code: The code structure used is identical to that used by the Canadian food file. An extra zero has…