Ok, time to change your diet....

I love studies like this one...it shows us how little we know about diet.

"Take two cheeseburgers and call me in the morning" may sound like far-fetched medical advice but it could soon be heard at doctors' surgeries.

A new study shows that high-fat foods can, at least in the gut, reduce inflammation. The work - to be published today in The Journal of Experimental Medicine - also suggests that people who have fasted could be at risk of developing a potentially lethal inflammatory response after surgery or an injury.

Eating - particularly eating fat-rich foods - causes cells in the small intestine to produce a helpful hormone called cholecystokinin, or CCK, according to research by Drs Misha Luyer and Wim Buurman of Maastricht University in Holland.

They found that fat-induced CCK can dampen inflammation in the gut.

Rats fed a high-fat diet were protected against invasion with potentially lethal bacteria, unlike those fed a "healthy" low-fat diet.