Bringing new Aspect in to Parks

The story of Dufferin Grove Park:
In order to bring joy to the park, Jutta Mason, suggested the idea of bringing food into parks. At that time no food was allowed in parks in Toronto, because of the food safety issue. However, when the members of Dufferin Grove Park take the initiative to make the bake oven, they found out there is nothing against the idea! The oven was so small to be included into building jurisdiction and since it was the enclosed fire there was no problem with fire department as long as they set some distance away from any other building.
We usually tend to believe if something is not there it has to be against the low. However we can use some roles against roles and spin it around!
They made the oven in 1995 and soon after it had become very popular. The smell of the fresh baked bread gathered many people into the park. People start to share their experience and memories from their childhood and back home bake ovens. The bake oven in Dufferin Grove Park made the whole place sweater with young kids eating sliced breads with butter.
Community parks play a vital role in promoting healthy eating and active living especially to young children and adolescent to pursue healthier lifestyles.
Since community parks are usually accessible they can be great places to offer range of activities for children. However, it is necessary to identify park characteristics which lead to more physical activity. Therefore, Community health professionals and community parks can work in partnership to design activities in order to decrease the rate of childhood obesity in Canada.

The Role of “awareness” and steps toward change

According to Malcolm Gladwell , philosophy professor, in order to be successful in planning social changes we need to build awareness around the facts . He also mentions that people do not need all the detail information around the facts to make social changes. We make changes usually by simple massages.
It makes us think about change in different ways, as desirable change vs. undesirable, changes that people believe in, how people judge changes and also considering the kind of changes that are choice worthy.
He critically takes into question the awareness model for social changes. We usually tend to create change by informing the public about the seriousness about the cause. It means that awareness has been used as the first step in information model. Conversely, Malcolm Gladwell has been skeptical to this model in terms of usefulness of this approach in generating action since usually there is a huge gap between knowing and doing. He mentions that awareness should not necessarily come into first stage because education by itself sometimes doesn’t make enormous amount of change.
So how do we measure change?
As we have seen there are so many programs just to create awareness about healthy eating and active living, but how effective these programs have been so far?
Do we start from knowing or change start to happen after we start taking the actions toward change?
We need to focus more on effective strategies to move population toward healthier nutrition practices and active living while maintaining awareness.In recent global financial crisis, I believe in order to make successful changes more budgets has to be allocated for effective nutrition strategies such as $100 healthy food supplement. Since, it is not wise to just educate people about healthy eating while they can’t afford it