New research into calorie burning fat – brown fat – offers insight into a new approach to weight loss. Check out this Today show video clip that gives more details about calorie burning fat, known as brown fat, which takes fat calories and burns them up.

Three new studies show that adults have brown fat, which resembles muscle cells, in the neck area. Brown fat was typically only thought to exist in babies. Trials are underway to introduce a drug that would encourage brown fat production to burn calories and lose weight.

This scientific breakthrough about calorie burning brown fat, however, is some years away.