num_pages: 476
description: It began at a place modestly described as the healthiest on the planet: the Battle Creek Sanitarium, home of Dr John Harvey Kellogg - best selling health writer, first guru of bran and grunt, the Santa Claus of the digestive tract. And yes - of course! - he invented the cornflake.Dr Kellogg's greatest achievement, however, did not come in a packet: it required instruction (and discipline). In 1907 middle America, near the founding factories of the cornflake, his patients were exposed to the invigorating properties of the five-times-a-day enema, the nourishing qualities of protose fillets, beetroot souffles and okra soup and, most important, the restorative effects of relentless self-denial.
language: English
title: The Road to Wellville
titlecomplete: The Road to Wellville
characters: Eleanor Lightbody, George Kellogg, Will Lightbody, Dr John Harvey Kellogg, Goodloe H. Bender, Charlie Ossining
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Health, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6472
places: Battle Creek, Michigan, Michigan
publisher: Penguin Books Australia Ltd