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Jim: We have a monthly breakfast series about the[br]future of health and wellness. It’s about

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bringing our community in to discuss and have[br]conversations about a very very important

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topic - about our health in the future.

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Jim: Today we had Brad McKay come in. He’s the CEO

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of Healthcare Food Services.[br]Brad: We’re here at the international restaurant

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at Algonquin College where the students and[br]the culinary program have served an absolutely

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wonderful breakfast for the attendees. We’re here[br]talking about food, health and wellness, and

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it’s part of a speaker series that has been[br]put together by Algonquin College and the

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Champlain LHIN. This morning I talked about[br]healthy food in the future and I talked about three things:

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How food will become healthier in the[br]future because meat consumption will go down

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and it goes down as economies advance. I talked[br]about how overall caloric consumption will

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go down in the future as food becomes more[br]and more expensive and the era of cheap food

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is over. Thirdly, I cautioned the group to[br]think in decades rather than years because

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these changes in food habits will take a long[br]time to occur. Our habits in food are deeply

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rooted in evolution and demographics and culture, and a[br]quick fix isn’t in the offing, but if we

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are interested in a long fix we’ll be happier[br]as a result.

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Jim: From my perspective as the Dean of Hospitality,[br]“you are what you eat,” having proper

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nutrition is extremely important for your[br]health and wellness.

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Brad: Algonquin is playing a leading role, and the[br]whole health and wellness institute that they are

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planning on I think is absolutely stupendous.[br]We need to be thinking in an integrated fashion,

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to take our population from where it is today,[br]to where it needs to be in the future.

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Jim: We have our healthy living education initiative,[br]we are creating a community hub, that will

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help us continue to evolve and produce leaders[br]in the field. And provide the graduates that

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employers are looking for.[br]Brad: I think it’s important for Algonquin to

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stay engaged, as it already has, with the[br]population base here in the Ottawa area, but also with

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the health care providers in Ottawa area. They’ve[br]done that brilliantly through their association

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with the Champlain LHIN. Around the world,[br]you don’t see a lot of initiatives like

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this so Algonquin is really on the leading[br]edge of in terms of getting a large collaboration

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of experts together to focus on creating and[br]teaching a healthier environment for all of us.