Michigan Proud
Do you like breakfast cereal? Health Food Stores? The modern education system in America? How about the Republican Party? Or the United States? How about driving in cars? Or how about the Middle Class in America? Or punk rock? Or pizza delivered to your house? If you like most of those things, you have Michigan to thank for all of it. Breakfast cereal was invented at the Kellogg Institute in Battle Creek Michigan to provide a healthy alternative to things like eggs and bacon for breakfast. Kellogg was a Seventh-Day Adventist at the time, and ran a healthy retreat that he called the Kellogg Sanitarium; his brother brought breakfast cereal to the world. The 7th Day Adventists emerged from Battle Creek Michigan, and are vegetarian Christians and have been so for over 150 years, providing a control group against the rest of America. They have very low rates of cancer, and they have no cholesterol problems or heart disease ...