I know this might be a little wide of topic, but I just found it so interesting that I had to share! I was looking through web sites dealing with aquarium fish husbandry and I found one dealing with nutrition. Halfway through the article, I came across the following: "Carbohydrates: These make up 20-40% of most commercial foods, such as starch & sugars. They are apparently not essential for growth, but are inexpensive sources for energy. Most fish tolerate 30-40% of carbohydrate in their diet, but a condition similar to diabetes results when unbalanced foods are fed. Too much carbs in the diet of young fish can prevent them from obtaining enough of other essential nutrients. High levels of raw starch like those in cereal grains, are digested incompletely by fish. They can even interfere with the digestion of other nutrients. Floating foods usually contain high levels of carbs to facilitate processing." Isn't it amazing that this information comes so easily to people who are keeping animals, yet so few seem to figure out the same thing about people? For any pet, the most knowledgeable people will tell you that to keep your pet in the best health, feed it what it would eat in the wild. So why is that leap so rarely made to humans? I remember telling my wife so many times over the past few years (before I changed my diet) that dog food was all wrong; where the hell was a wolf going to get corn? Yet, I'd been so brainwashed by the low-fat propaganda that I never realized that the same applied to me! (The quote comes from Cathy's Tropical Fishkeeping Homepage, which I would quote the URL for but I can't seem to get through the firewall at the moment.) John Pavao