Breakfast cereals were invented to CURE sexual urges?!? The WEIRD History of Corn Flakes

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing how and WHY cornflakes were invented, we will be discussing the life of John Harvey Kellogg, Will Keith Kellogg and the creation of Corn Flakes Breakfast Cereal. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:22 - Who was John Kellogg? 2:36 - Dr. John's Career at the Sanitarium4:50 - John's Medical Treatments & Inventions 10:00 - Treatments for Stopping Sexual Urges12:28 - What does this have to do with Cereal?13:50 - John and Will's Relationship16:35 - Will discovers Flaked Cereal + Makes it successful19:26 - Corn Flakes Marketing Campaigns + Fighting between brothers22:45 - The Great Depression + The Kellogg Legacy 25:25 - Outro ► Listen on the go - You can find the History & Hearsay PODCAST on Apple, Spotify, wherever you listen to your podcasts, or if you enjoy the visual aspect you can WATCH right here on Youtube every OTHER Friday!  SOURCES:https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/the-weird-true-story-of-the-kelloggs-brothers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMsN0fhnq08&list=WL&index=6  https://www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org/encounters/how-the-kellogg-brothers-taught-america-to-eat-breakfast/ https://thetakeout.com/kelloggs-corn-flakes-history-as-anti-sexual-cereal-1848612151https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/kellogg-s-breakfast-revolutionhttps://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2018/03/13/kelloggs-battling-brothers-battle-creek-john-harvey-keith-medical-history-book/420629002/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-kellogg-brothers-transformed-breakfast-and-pioneered-wellnesshttps://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/https://www.businessinsider.com/brought-to-you-by-podcast-btyb-kellogg-brothershttps://conference.kbs.msu.edu/manor-house/manor-house-history/https://www.michiganradio.org/arts-culture/2017-11-28/a-bitter-brotherly-feud-and-how-kelloggs-corn-flakes-reimagined-american-breakfast https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-kellogg-brothers-transformed-breakfast-and-pioneered-wellnesshttps://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/https://www.businessinsider.com/brought-to-you-by-podcast-btyb-kellogg-brothershttps://conference.kbs.msu.edu/manor-house/manor-house-hSupport the show