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John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) spent his life inventing new ways to improve human health and vitality — at least in his opinion. His eponymous corn flakes were designed to be part of a bland diet that, he believed, would curb nasty habits like masturbation.
Corn flakes have endured, but some of Kellogg’s other inventions have not:
1. Electric horse. Imagine a saddle atop a barrel-shaped stationary device that bucks up and down. It was intended to replicate the exercise involved in horseback riding. Kellogg also invented a mechanical “camel” with a sideways motion.
2. Poop chair. Kellogg was big on the benefits of colonic irrigation. The poop chair was an adjunct idea. It looked like an ordinary dining room table chair, but vibrated, with the idea being that all that shaking would help jostle a subsequent bowel movement.
3. Before there was the “Impossible Burger” and other plant-based “meats,” there was Kellogg’s Protose “vegetable meat,” which appears to have been a combination of wheat gluten, cereal and peanut butter.
Source: This post first appeared on sandiegouniontribune.com
