John Harvey Kellogg

Season 30

Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.

John Harvey Kellogg was a doctor, nutritionist and businessman. Also a health reformer, he was obsessed with clean diet and exercise. For a time, he worked with leading eugenicist Charles Davenport to organize the Race Betterment Conference at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco.

AIR DATE 10/12/18

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