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Imagine if cereal companies spent this same money on raising fiber in sugar, or adding protein, or reducing sugar with a stevia hybrid. Even imagine most milk

Imagine if cereal companies spent this same money on raising fiber in sugar, or adding protein, or reducing sugar with a stevia hybrid. Even imagine most milk switching to ultra filtered (lactose converted to sucrose, 50% more protein). "Small" changes like these would make our food actually better for us.

FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
Just don't eat cereal. William Kellogg is to the American's body as Thomas Midgley Jr. was to the environment. The dead man is still fucking us up. Have no time? Eat some plain yogurt; put blueberries on top. Not cereal. Have five minutes to cook? (I'm sure your phone steals more from you every hour; it does me.) Fry/scramble an egg. It cooks in like two minutes. Not cereal.
- snvzz 3y ago
  And routine enemas. Do not forget these.
  - FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
    Wikipedia says he only put half the yogurt in the bottom; the other half went in the top. So at least he was half right?
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
  Corrections: 1. Some of the insanity may be due more to William Keith Kellogg's brother John Harvey Kellogg than to W. K. himself. They appear to have been close and shared ideas though. 2. Wikipedia argues that John Harvey is not really responsible for the sins popularly attributed to him. Perhaps others like Richard Francis Burton are as much to blame. Orientalists and imperialists who, envious of Islamic devotion and having a congenital anxiety of inferiority to their Jewish forebears, sought to import practices that had previously been filtered out in the reform process that had created Christianity. Thus we had colonial boosters declaring that the English were a tribe of Israel (like a white version of some Rasta-adjacent beliefs), and other things that seem silly to us today. Though, all identities are imagined, of course. 3. The diet emphasized by John Harvey does not necessarily sound awful, if you focus on the emphasis on fiber. But Corn Flakes are not a high fiber food, so they are not consistent with that idea. The brothers would have done better to popularize beans.
- scotty79 3y ago
  Muesli is 1 to 1 replacement for cereal.

FooBarBizBazz 3y ago

Just don't eat cereal. William Kellogg is to the American's body as Thomas Midgley Jr. was to the environment. The dead man is still fucking us up. Have no time? Eat some plain yogurt; put blueberries on top. Not cereal. Have five minutes to cook? (I'm sure your phone steals more from you every hour; it does me.) Fry/scramble an egg. It cooks in like two minutes. Not cereal.

snvzz 3y ago
And routine enemas. Do not forget these.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
  Wikipedia says he only put half the yogurt in the bottom; the other half went in the top. So at least he was half right?
FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
Corrections: 1. Some of the insanity may be due more to William Keith Kellogg's brother John Harvey Kellogg than to W. K. himself. They appear to have been close and shared ideas though. 2. Wikipedia argues that John Harvey is not really responsible for the sins popularly attributed to him. Perhaps others like Richard Francis Burton are as much to blame. Orientalists and imperialists who, envious of Islamic devotion and having a congenital anxiety of inferiority to their Jewish forebears, sought to import practices that had previously been filtered out in the reform process that had created Christianity. Thus we had colonial boosters declaring that the English were a tribe of Israel (like a white version of some Rasta-adjacent beliefs), and other things that seem silly to us today. Though, all identities are imagined, of course. 3. The diet emphasized by John Harvey does not necessarily sound awful, if you focus on the emphasis on fiber. But Corn Flakes are not a high fiber food, so they are not consistent with that idea. The brothers would have done better to popularize beans.
scotty79 3y ago
Muesli is 1 to 1 replacement for cereal.