John Harvey Kellogg
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Nov 3, 2026
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
It was part of a health movement.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
And at the center of that movement was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which became one of the most famous health institutions in America.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
It promoted exercise, disease prevention, digestive health, vegetarian eating, and a grain-centered diet shaped in part by Seventh-day Adventist teachings about health and morality.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
So in the sanitarium setting, though, they needed something easy to feed people.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
He ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
John Harvey Kellogg was not merely trying to invent a convenient breakfast.
Elizabeth DoughertyHOST
He was trying to create foods that fit a particular theory of health.
GeorgeGUEST
The original motivations for male circumcision was also to sexually desensify boys, especially in America.
GeorgeGUEST
And you should look into John Kellogg on that matter.
GeorgeGUEST
People say there's...
GeorgeGUEST
FGM is more barbaric and there are certain types of FGM that are more barbaric.
Beckett GrahamHOST
Fueled in part by a sibling disagreement about adding sugar to
Susan VollenweiderHOST
their recently creative flake cereal, Will Keith Kellogg split from his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and created the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
Henry Royce, Charles Rolls, and Claude Johnson incorporated their luxury car business, Rolls-Royce Limited, in England.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
The first animated cartoon recorded on picture film, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, was created.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed nearly 80% of the city, left nearly 300,000 homeless, and killed over 3,000 people.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
The Wright brothers received a patent for their system of flight called the Flying Machine.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
Marshall Field, Paul Cezanne, and Susan B. Anthony died.
Susan VollenweiderHOST
And in 1906, Grace Hopper was born into a world she would help to significantly change.
James MueckeGUEST
Who's heard the term, breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Come on, put your arms, hands up.
James MueckeGUEST
Everyone, right? So that phrase was actually popularised by John Harvey Kellogg in 1906 to market his newly invented breakfast cereal, Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
James MueckeGUEST
I suspect one of the most enduring marketing campaigns ever, but not a shred of evidence to back up his claims.
James MueckeGUEST
In fact, most of us would do better without having cereal for brekkie.
Peter BallerstedtGUEST
The problem, I'm not the only one to point this out, but I think we need to recognize that we got the dietary guidelines as the result of, one, the very peculiar strain of vegetarianism that sprang up in the mid-19th century in America, which was a religiously motivated, moralistic movement.
Peter BallerstedtGUEST
Thank you, John Harvey Kellogg.
Peter BallerstedtGUEST
You know, women shouldn't eat meat because it makes them lustful harpies.
Peter BallerstedtGUEST
why that's a problem I don't know but and and we then carry that forward and we combine it with the environmentalism that emerged in the sixties and the seventies and these movements are still with us today and if we don't recognize that and the role they play in numerous controversies We may not be able to make the progress that we hope to be able to make.
Stephen BaileyHOST
And we're going to come back to him a little bit later.
Stephen BaileyHOST
But first, we need to go back to the 1880s to visit Battle Creek, Michigan, because you have two brothers who perfectly illustrate the tension between peanut butter as a niche specialty food and a delicious spread that ended up in kids' lunchboxes.
Stephen BaileyHOST
And Let's just say their relationship with food and each other was, we'll call it complicated.
Adrienne CheathamHOST
Yes.
Michael RankinGUEST
What's the number one condition they've been talking about since 1948 when Dr. Bernard Jensen wrote the book Better Bowel Care? He talks about Dr.
Michael RankinGUEST
Kellogg, Dr. Kellogg before the Kellogg products are made, right? Yeah.
Michael RankinGUEST
He talks about 90% of the people he saw that were in his clinic to be healed were constipated or dehydrated, 90%.
Michael RankinGUEST
There was an article that came out last year that talked about 90% of the population are dehydrated or constipated.
Matt Money SmithHOST
But some fancy friends told him about a miracle worker up in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Matt Money SmithHOST
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who plied his trade at the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Matt Money SmithHOST
Kellogg believed bland grain-based food could cure almost anything, and in his kitchen, we found a laboratory for health foods.
Matt Money SmithHOST
Patients ate whole grain biscuits, a cereal that he had named granola, and a coffee substitute made from roasted grains.
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