For this bizarre reason were invented cornflakes

Do you think that cereals were invented to start the day full of energy, as it says in the commercials? Nothing is less true. 

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg created the cereals at the end of the 19th century as a remedy for masturbation. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg had not really understood everything that tended towards sex. He and his wife slept in separate beds, the marriage was reportedly consummated and their children were adopted. While he found objectionable sex, he considered masturbation especially disgusting. So he orphaned masturbation include epilepsy, blindness, stiff joints and a general poor development. In his lifetime he also developed all kinds of methods to the 'dirty' thoughts to counteract such as the burning of the clitoris with acid and the foreskin of the penis sewing with wire.

A little less cruel was his idea to launch a breakfast that had to be healthy and fast, but also had to have an anti-masturbation effect. First he experimented with the now trendy granola with yogurt and colonics, but eventually figured out what we now know as cornflakes. Kellogg assumed that meat, spices and fat were aphrodisiac and therefore developed the corn flakes.

Family Feud 

For the production of cereals John Harvey went to work with his brother Will, who was an insidious businessman and later was the first that would add sugar to the cereal and Kellogg's empire would expand. It made ​​for a decades-long feud between the two brothers. Of the original intentions of John Harvey so nothing came home. All of which will bowl of cornflakes in the morning may never be the same now.