Todd Moody wrote about his grandmother:

> What I remember very clearly is
>this: For breakfast she would eat Kellogg's "Special K" cereal
>with whole milk.

Troy Gilchrist wrote:

>The fact that the human body cannot synthesize vitamin B12,
>available exclusively from animal sources, is a very big obstacle for
>vegetarians to circumvent-- intellectually and physiologically. In
>nature, in the absence of technology--fire, domestic animals, pottery,
>agriculture-- a vegetarian diet will kill a human very quickly. Your
>grandmother rolled the cosmic dice and got lucky.

No, Special K, and her milk, gave her anything she lacked by not eating meat.

Todd replied (under the subject: Diet and the genetic dice):

>Note that my grandmother's case is not unique.  John Harvey
>Kellogg, the vegetarian king himself, lived about as long as
>Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Well, since Kellogg invented vitamin supplements, I have no doubt he took
plenty of them.

Don.