Fat switch may offer new obesity approach: study

Wrong. It is a new approach to killing you.

Really, do you think that all these years of human development and the loss of brown fat was for no good reason?

'"Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white fat,' said Dr. Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Center.

In humans, it all but disappears by adulthood, the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

The question is whether humans can be taken back to an infantile state in which brown fat counteracts the buildup of white fat."

As if some guy at Harvard knows better than biology.

Manipulate this and what will be the fallout? No one knows and I do not want to be the one on whom they find out.

I smell the law of unintended consequences strong here.

To quote Tony Blair, this is "loopy-loo."