The Full and Complete History of Kellogg's Corn Flakes

Back in the mid to late 1800's, spanning to the early 1900's, there was a huge health craze that swept the country. One of the main proprietors of this health craze was a man by the name of Dr. John N. Kellogg. Because of his belief of holistic naturally good food, which went right along with the health craze, he built a spa in Battle Creek, Michigan. The entire point of the spa was to help people live better, live longer, and eat better.(http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/kellogg.htm)

People flocked to his spa by the hundreds; and when they left, they indeed felt better and ate better. Though he would fit in with the nut and berry hikers and backpackers of today, he was seen as a quack by most of his colleagues and the most people in the country, who saw the hearty cooking of the frontier as the correct way to eat. He was in fact ahead of his time in many regards. In a time of "eat what you want" mentality, Dr. Kellogg was looking into and proving the links between of excess cholesterol and trans fat to heart diseases.These are ideas that our modern doctors are just getting their heads around over 1oo years later.

In his large hospital/spa, each patient had to agree to a regimen of the Kellogg health program. This program consisted of a correct diet, exercise, relaxation, and soaking plans. One of the main components of this prescribed diet were an odd wheat flake he had invented. It was a mixture of grains, wheat, and various yeasts baked into little flakes. These baked flakes were then put into a bowel and had light sweet cream poured over them.

These flakes were considered the best part of the spa, and many people came just for these wonderful flakes. There were even people who wanted to be on a diet of just these little flakes, because they said it made them feel more alive and healthy. Interestingly enough, just that sort of thing is being done right now with the celebrated Kellogg's diet where you eat only the Kellogg's cereal. How ahead of his time was this man?

In 1907, Kellogg decided to market his baked flakes as "the best of you each morning", in the middle of an America that believed in only hot breakfasts of oatmeal, eggs, etc. It was a phenomenon that took hold very quickly, and is still be sold today. (http://investor.kelloggs.com/history.cfm) The recipe has never changed, and will continue to be the same recipe that Dr. Kellogg thought of all those years a