Silly Rabbit! Brightly Colored Sugary Rice Cereal Is for Kids — Or Is It?

[摘要] Perhaps you have grown weary from your daily perusal of scholarly articles. Perhaps you desire to increase your performance on Jeopardy . Perhaps you desire to read an article about breakfast cereal.Look no further.Why should I care about breakfast cereal, you say? We will get to that. First, let’s review some history and satisfy your hunger for marginally useful knowledge.Breakfast cereal began its evolution in the United States in the mid-1800s, during a period of heightened awareness of health and nutrition, entwined with the temperance movement. This begat a proliferation of sanitariums, which have a prominent role in the story and were, in large part, health spas that existed for wealthy patients to convalesce from consumption in the dark ages before antibiotics. Cereal was developed in a collaborative sort of way in a few sanitariums and may have been the first commercially manufactured “health food,” hard as that may be to swallow.It started with Sylvester Graham, who we can thank for graham crackers. He was a charismatic Presbyterian minister who in the early 1800s became known for his love of sexual moderation, temperance, and vegetarianism and his hatred of white bread and masturbation. A touchy subject indeed—white bread does upset some people. The latter is a touchy-feely subject, in a way. Mr Graham can be at least partially credited for the philosophies of many sanitariums of the time. A similarly minded man and contemporary of Mr Graham’s, Dr James Caleb Jackson, the operator of the Jackson Sanitarium in Dansville, New York, developed “Granula” for his sanitarium patients in 1863, believed to be the first iteration of breakfast cereal. Granula was a brick of Graham’s whole wheat flour (sadly not what is now used to produce graham crackers), which was indeed hard to swallow without a leisurely …

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