[WanderingOak]

Offhand, I would say that bread is healthier than processed cereal, unless you are talking about rolled oats, etc. I have heard tell of a study done on rats. One group of rats was fed a steady diet of breakfast cereal, a second control group was fed commercial rat food, and a third group was fed cardboard (I know it's not a test a goup of high-consciousness scientists would participate in). Of course, the cardboard-eating rats died from malnutrition. However, what surprised the researchers was that the rats eating the breakfast cereals died first. They had all of the symptoms of diabetes before they died. You can take this with however many grains of salt you think you might need...