World Bank raises concern over too much emphasis on rice

TO most Filipinos, rice is life. We have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Between regular meals, many of us still love rice-based delicacies such as bibingka, puto bumbong, biko and binignit (ginataang bilo-bilo).

We tend to eat more rice when it is paired with dishes like adobo, kare-kare, sinigang and caldereta. We feel weak and easily agitated when we don't consume rice. We can't live without rice.