I think of fish food like I think of my family food. The best food has one ingredient. For fish it would be something like fish, clam, plankton, eggs etc. If you "God Forbid" have any dry foods on hand, look at the ingredients and ask yourself if you would eat that. I am holding a can of "Premium" pellets now.
(I use it to feed my worms)
57 ingredients. Many of which do not resemble any type of food but are chemicals that I can't pronounce.
4 or 5 preservatives, 2 or 3 artificial colors. Anti-clumping chemicals, etc.
If you are attempting to keep an animal healthy why would you use that? The second ingredient is flour. Flour is used because it is practically free, has no nutritional value and never goes bad. It also has "red iron oxide" for color. That's rust.
All the added vitamins are artificial vitamins that were removed before processing so they can make the stuff last forever without refrigeration.
This is a huge problem in this hobby, but many people are lazy and figure this stuff is "good enough". It isn't, and the big reason for disease forums.
For my family, I only serve "real" food. The US spends more on medications and has the sickest, fattest, and out-of-shape people of any country, and they have almost the shortest lifespan. Just go to Disney World and look at the shape of many of the people. Why do you think that is?
It's because Americans are wealthier than most countries and that makes us lazy. We no longer have to grow our own food or hunt for it, so we can live on Hostess Twinkies, Hot dogs, and fast food, which is very tasty and cheap.
Most people don't know that the white flour, which is in almost everything is loaded with poison.
You can research this all over the internet. The only people who say it is safe are the chemical company that makes the stuff.
In most European countries, it is banned. But we can freely use it on consumer plants. We get our wheat from Italy in a place that doesn't use any chemicals.
Olive oil is another one. As a Sicilian we use an enormous amount of olive oil. I even drink some every night.
75% of the olive oil in the US isn't even olive oil. Some of it is partially olive oil, but the rest is cheap vegetable oil, which will do nothing for your health. Our olive oil can't be sold in Europe.
You can search for the best olive oils. Oddly, Costco olive oil (Kirkland) is one of the best and is certified 100% real olive oil. The rest of them come from many different countries and it is difficult or impossible to know what they make it out of.
I also use a lot of honey. Honey is worse than olive oil when it comes to origin. It is estimated that 90% of honey is doctored with other things that do not come from bees. We get our honey from beekeepers here on Long Island. It's expensive but bees don't work for minimum wage.
Much of our produce this time of the year comes from Mexico. Never in my house. I have been all through Mexico and recently took a class on produce from there. Mexico is an ancient lake bed and no water drains through it so they can't just put the human waste in the ground in septic systems like many of us do here because it would not sink into the ground. So it travels in open trenches down the mountain to the farms where it is used as fertilizer. Thats "Human Waste". If that doesn't bother you, then eat Mexican produce.
I would rather not, check please. Many Asian countries use Human Waste to fertilize the waters where they farm raise tilapia, shrimp, and catfish which we also don't buy. Thats why shrimp from Vietnam are 3 or $4.00 a pound while American Gulf Shrimp are $15.00 a pound.
What we eat determines a large part of our health. I myself exercise every day by walking up and down 17 flights of stairs then walking 2 miles. I am the exact same weight as I was when I got married 52 years ago.
I lost 35lbs from walking and learning about healthy food. My fish also learned this fact so they stay healthy.
A couple of weeks ago I had a stress test. After I finished, I asked the nurse if I did OK. She said No. She said I didn't do OK, I did amazing, which made me feel really good. She also said that almost no one's heart rate returns to normal within a minute, so she could tell I had exercised. And I'm 77 years old.
My blood pressure is perfect as is my heart rate. (Of course, I still could croak today)
I realize most people don't care about any of this because you are young. I used to be the same way and when I moved here 8 years ago I was heavier than I have ever been. My wife is severely handicapped with MS, and I need to be in good shape to take care of her and pick her up when she falls. I was having trouble doing that, so I decided to do something about it.
