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Ah, Battle Creek! Also where the Kellogg brothers got up to their weirdness. John Harvey Kellogg was involved in the weird dietary movements of the era as well

Ah, Battle Creek! Also where the Kellogg brothers got up to their weirdness. John Harvey Kellogg was involved in the weird dietary movements of the era as well. Ran a sort of spa / psych hospital thing, recommended people eat super plain food and chew each bite 45 times, that sort of thing. Tried to make "pre-digested" food which led eventually to Corn Flakes. Lots of weird health anecdotes out of there. Anything from one of the Kellogg brothers leaving the table during a meal and coming back with a pail of his own fresh shit, inviting others to smell it and describing it as "as if it were a warm loaf of bread," to recommending circumcision in young adults as a preventative measure to masturbation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

gvand 8y ago
They made a movie out of it: "The Road to Wellville"[1]. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/
Kalium 8y ago
It's not a coincidence that Graham and Kelloggs were both doing weird dietary stuff in Battle Creek. The Seventh Day Adventist Church was - and to an extent still is - a major presence in Battle Creek. They place a great deal of emphasis on health in general and diet in particular. I believe all of those men were Adventists.
- moretai 8y ago
  Can an outsider move into a place like that or anywhere that is heavily influenced by a cult like figure or mentality and avoid being forced into their community/cult?
  - Kalium 8y ago
    Battle Creek? It's not Salt Lake City or Clearwater. The Adventists don't comprise an overwhelming majority of the town by any means. Whether you, an outsider, would want to move to a mid-size dying industrial town is also a question worth asking.
smacktoward 8y ago
chew each bite 45 times Also known as Fletcherizing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher

gvand 8y ago

They made a movie out of it: "The Road to Wellville"[1]. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/

Kalium 8y ago

It's not a coincidence that Graham and Kelloggs were both doing weird dietary stuff in Battle Creek. The Seventh Day Adventist Church was - and to an extent still is - a major presence in Battle Creek. They place a great deal of emphasis on health in general and diet in particular. I believe all of those men were Adventists.

moretai 8y ago
Can an outsider move into a place like that or anywhere that is heavily influenced by a cult like figure or mentality and avoid being forced into their community/cult?
- Kalium 8y ago
  Battle Creek? It's not Salt Lake City or Clearwater. The Adventists don't comprise an overwhelming majority of the town by any means. Whether you, an outsider, would want to move to a mid-size dying industrial town is also a question worth asking.

smacktoward 8y ago

chew each bite 45 times Also known as Fletcherizing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher