Comments on: Foods that build health can be Palate-Tempting (Feb, 1929)

By: Thundercat

Thundercat — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:13:51 +0000

@ John Savard: Clearly you haven’t been married long enough.

By: John Savard

John Savard — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:53:06 +0000

Some of what was at the part of the book referenced didn’t sound all that unreasonable. To say that a husband should wait until his wife also wants to engage in sex is reasonable. To go on to say that she would normally be interested only once a month, or once a year, of course, is the part that is unusual.

By: steve from brisbane

steve from brisbane — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:25:00 +0000

At least half of the items in that range contains something that works as a laxative. Kellogg was clearly obsessed with regularity (keep that colon clean!), but honestly, if I ate that much bran, figs, etc, I’d be on the toilet 5 times a day. Did he see that as a good thing, all that privacy for teenage boys…

By: Torgo

Torgo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:17:36 +0000

The Fig Bran sounds pretty good actually.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:32:29 +0000

There is actually a really fun movie about Kellogg and Battle Creek called The Road to Wellville. Anthony Hopkins plays Kellogg and it also has Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Kathy Bates, etc. Well worth watching.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Oh yeah, he wasn’t a big fan of sex at all!

http://books.google.com/books?.....8;as_brr=1

The whole book is like this.

Supposedly he wrote this book on his honeymoon. Apparently he and his wife never consummated their marriage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J....._sexuality

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:25:56 +0000

Kellogg was not so much against sex as against masturbation. Corn and Bran Flakes were created to curb that particular part of one’s libido.

And I’ve tried masturbating with corn flakes- it just ain’t the same.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:39:10 +0000

I suppose in a parallel universe Savita is to America what Marmite is to England and Vegemite to Australia….glad I live in THIS universe then…

By: katey

katey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:26:41 +0000

Bran AND Agar?! Yum!

By: Scott B.

Scott B. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:22:03 +0000

John Harvey Kellogg, whom I think founded this sanitarium, was a bit of a health nut, emphasis on the “nut.” He had an obsession with keeping the colon clean, and thought sex was just a bad idea. He developed cold cereals, thinking they would curb people’s libidos. Interesting fellow.

If you ate a diet of the junk in this ad, I don’t doubt you’d have little sex drive. Yuck.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:54:11 +0000

Savita=Marmite/Vegemite?

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:13:39 +0000

If that photo doesn’t tempt you, what else would?

(if by “tempt you” they mean “make you run screaming from the room”)

By: Myles

Myles — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:41:03 +0000

“Meatless dishes abounding in strength-giving qualities now rival choicest beef and chicken”

Wow, not only is this is good as beef, but the choicest beef.

“PARAMELS — Creamy caramels of mineral oil” Blechh.

“For years it has been used at the Battle Creek Sanitarium” They need to get out more.