Luckily, I prefer rice to bread /s Jokes aside, I honestly think that the modern Western diet would benefit a lot from some diversification on what cereals we

Luckily, I prefer rice to bread /s Jokes aside, I honestly think that the modern Western diet would benefit a lot from some diversification on what cereals we eat. We eat way too much wheat nowadays. For instance, I like in Italy and we import most of our wheat, while we produce large amounts of rice, exporting more than 50% of it. People in Northern Italy have always eaten bread, but they ate way less pasta and way more rice and cornmeal in the past. Since the 1950s pasta has become incredibly ubiquitous and people have lost knowledge and the taste for rice dishes - lots of boomers I know don't even have rice in their homes.