The process for the CoolSculpting procedure, called cryolipolysis, was originally developed by Harvard scientists Dr. Dieter Manstein and Dr. Rox Anderson. Their ideas were based on research that showed children sucking on popsicles would lose cheek fat. Over the course of several years, they refined cryolipolysis to effectively freeze and destroy body fat cells without affecting the surrounding tissue. The FDA cleared the process for fat reduction in 2010.