Mayor Nutter wants to impose a tax on all sweetened beverages including soda, energy drinks, ice tea, even chocolate milk. Could this really help in the fight against obesity? At Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education, director Gary Foster has been leading a study of childhood obesity and nutrition and their connection to the corner store. Foster found that Philadelphia children who go to a corner store spend $1.07 and walk out with 360 calories, most from sugary drinks, chips, and candy. "If we could change what kids eat by 100 calories a day . . . those kind of small changes are whopping if that happens five, six, seven times a week," he said.


March 4, 2010 | Philadelphia Daily News
In her column urging parents to become more involved in the fight against childhood obesity, Kimberly Garrison referred to research conducted by Temple University’s Robert Whitaker, a professor of pediatrics and public health at the Center for Obesity Research and Education. "Children are becoming obese even before they enter elementary school,” said Whitaker. Respondents to his survey of more than 1,500 Head Start directors across the country reported that they lacked time, money and knowledge to combat the problem.

March 3, 2010 | FOX29
A new iPhone app, which lets you gather information about a person and their social networking life simply by pointing your camera phone at their face, is raising a lot of questions about how far technology can go. "We've already given up the majority of our privacy to use the Internet, but this takes it even further," says Temple Computer and Information Science Instructor Abbe E. Forman, a digital privacy expert. "It's beyond privacy to the point of almost enabling stalkers."