The Many Odd Theories of the Cornflake Man

A cereal killer of the human libido

Look at this man:

Here he is on a bicycle.

And here he is communing with a bird.

Ok, now that we’re all on the same page, let’s talk about Dr. John Kellogg, (1852–1943, yes he lived to be 91 years old).

If you know nothing else about Dr. Kellogg, you probably know about the cornflakes thing (I promise we’ll get more into that) and the fact that he started a sanitarium. You also now know that had an unrivaled mustache/goatee combo that seems to be the influence for Colonel Sanders (ironic because Kellog was plant-based). He also believed that, with proper diet and lifestyle choices, he could cure anything (mental or physical) and everything except racism because he was pretty into eugenics. Yikes.

Dr. Kellogg adhered to what he called the “living temple” doctrine, which is exactly what it sounds like — the body is a temple and if you don’t care for it…