Invented to CURE sexual urges?!? The WEIRD History of Corn Flakes

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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 Sanitarium
4:50 - John's Medical Treatments & Inventions
10:00 - Treatments for Stopping Sexual Urges
12:28 - What does this have to do with Cereal?
13:50 - John and Will's Relationship
16:35 - Will discovers Flaked Cereal + Makes it successful
19:26 - Corn Flakes Marketing Campaigns + Fighting between brothers
22:45 - The Great Depression + The Kellogg Legacy
25:25 - Outro
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â–ºSOURCES:
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-1848612151
https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/kellogg-s-breakfast-revolution
https://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-wellness

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