Hi Rachel and Don

A year ago I read a book about this subject.  It was about Kellog and the way he
started with the cornflakes.  He was not the first one to make this product.
Apperently it was fashion in that time to go to health-spa's and a lot of
psycology was used in there as well.
Abstinence was the predict but women had the oppertunity to go to doctors who
used vibrators on them (honest, I'm not making this up).  The treatment there
was seen as normal so women would not get hysterical.  Like a kind of
physiotherapy that kept women from getting restless.
 No animal proteins were allowed and lots and lots of muesli were consumed.
Very perceptive to see that not eating meats lowered a persons sexdrive.  Just
the thing I would not want ;-))

Christy



matesz schreef:

> I recently read, in The New Male Sexuality by Bernie Zilbergeld, ph.D, that
> in the mid 1800s, Sylvester Graham (father of the Graham cracker!) thought
> that health was related to sexual excesses, "intercourse more than once per
> month, masturbation, and erotic dreams"--all of which he believed were
> caused by eating rich and spicy foods.  His antidote: a vegetarian diet of
> "plain and boring" foods, including coarse whole wheat flour, from which his
> cracker was made.
>
> Besides Graham, John Harvey Kellog also fancied himself a sexual advisor.
> Believe it or not, Kellog thought sex was "the ultimate abomination and
> remained chaste in marriage."  (Guess he couldn't leave any heirs!!  His
> brother had to do that I guess)  A number of foods which he introduced were
> designed to promote health (obviously) and decrease interest in sex
> (unbeknownst to most folks).  One of these foods he called CORN FLAKES.
> (Seriously, I am not making this up!! :-))
>
> They got their followers to eat a grain-based diet free of flesh foods.
> Those in the know know that that can profoundly effect one's hormones (their
> goal!!!).  Funny how most folks think of Corn Flakes, Raisin Bran, whole
> wheat bread and similar foods as health foods, though the majority probably
> don't want to lose all drive and most probably don't take such dietary
> guidelines to that extreme.
>
> Ha! :-))
>
> Rachel (& Don)
> (we thought some of you would get a kick out of this!)