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 clo

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.