Now here's something completely unexpected (to me, at least!): several now-common foods were invented for the purpose of suppressing our animal passions. One specific example: the Kellogg brothers invented corn flakes as part of a dietary program, one objective for which was to reduce masturbation and other dangerous sexual behaviors.
No, I'm not kidding. Read more here, here, and here.
I'll never be able to look at corn flakes or graham crackers the same way again!
Watch the movie "The Road to Wellville" 1994 Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey. Its a spoof on Kelloggs Sanitarium.
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