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Cereal, also called grain, any grass (family Poaceae) yielding starchy seeds suitable for food. Most grains have similar dietary properties; they are rich in carbohydrates but comparatively low in protein and naturally deficient in calcium and vitamin A. Breads, especially those made with refined flours, are usually enriched in order to compensate for any nutritional deficiencies in the cereal used. The cereals most commonly cultivated are wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn (maize), and sorghum.

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Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, the sister of Jupiter, and the mother of Proserpine. Ceres was a kind and benevolent goddess to the Romans and they had a common expression, "fit for Ceres," which meant splendid.

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Cold cereals are an easy, convenient food.

Many boast impressive health claims or try to promote the latest nutrition trend. But you may wonder whether these cereals are as healthy as they claim to be.

This article takes a detailed look at breakfast cereals and their health effects.

Breakfast cereal is made from processed grains and often fortified with vitamins and minerals. It is commonly eaten with milk, yogurt, fruit, or nuts ().

Here's how breakfast cereals are typically made:

1. Processing. The grains are usually processed into fine flour and cooked.

2. Mixing. The flour is then mixed with ingredients like sugar, cocoa, and water.

3. Extrusion. Many breakfast cereals are produced via extrusion, a high-temperature process that uses a machine to shape the cereal.

4. Drying. Next, the cereal is dried.

5. Shaping. Finally, the cereal is shaped into forms, such as balls, stars, loops or rectangles.

Breakfast cereals may also be puffed, flaked, or shredded - or coated in chocolate or frosting before it is dried.

SUMMARY Breakfast cereal is made from refined grains, often by a process called extrusion. It is highly processed, with many ingredients added.

Added sugar may very well be the single worst ingredient in the modern diet.

It contributes to several chronic diseases, and most people are eating way too much of it (, , ).

Notably, most of this sugar comes from processed foods - and breakfast cereals are among the most popular processed foods that are high in added sugars.

In fact, most cereals list sugar as the second or third ingredient.

Starting the day with a high-sugar breakfast cereal will spike your blood sugar and insulin levels.

A few hours later, your blood sugar may crash, and your body will crave another high-carb meal or snack - potentially creating a vicious cycle of overeating ().

Excess consumption of sugar may also increase your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer (, , ).

SUMMARY Most breakfast cereals are loaded with sugar and refined grains. High sugar consumption is harmful and may increase your risk of several diseases.

Breakfast cereals are marketed as healthy.

Breakfast cereals are marketed as healthy - with boxes featuring health claims like "low-fat" and "whole-grain." Yet, their first listed ingredients are often refined grains and sugar.

Small amounts of whole grains don't make these products healthy.

However, studies show that these health claims are an effective way to mislead people into believing that these products are healthier (, ).

SUMMARY Breakfast cereals often have misleading health claims printed on the box - yet are filled with sugar and refined grains.

Food manufacturers specifically target children.

Companies use bright colors, cartoon characters, and action figures to attract children's attention.

Unsurprisingly, this causes children to associate breakfast cereals with entertainment and fun.

This also affects taste preferences. Studies show that some children prefer the taste of foods that have popular cartoon characters on the packaging (, 12).

Exposure to food marketing is even considered a risk factor for childhood obesity and other diet-related diseases ( 13).

These same products often have misleading health claims as well.

While the colors and cartoons make the products more appealing to children, the health claims make the parents feel better about buying such products for their kids.

SUMMARY Cereal manufacturers are experts at marketing - especially toward children. They use bright colors and popular cartoons to attract children's attention, which studies show affects taste preferences.

If you choose to eat cereal for breakfast, here are some tips to help you select a healthier option.

Limit sugar

Try to choose a breakfast cereal with under 5 grams of sugar per serving. Read the food label to find out how much sugar the product contains.

Aim for high fiber

Breakfast cereals that pack at least 3 grams of fiber per serving are optimal. Eating enough fiber can have numerous health benefits ().

Pay attention to portions

Breakfast cereals tend to be crunchy and tasty, and it can be very easy to consume a high number of calories. Try to measure how much you're eating, using the serving size information on the packaging for guidance.

Read the ingredients list

Ignore the health claims on the front of the box, making sure to check the ingredients list. The first two or three ingredients are most important, as they comprise the majority of the cereal.

However, food manufacturers may use tricks to hide the amount of sugar in their products.

If sugar is listed several times under different names - even if it is not in the first few spots - the product is probably very high in sugar.

Add some protein

Protein is the most filling macronutrient. It increases fullness and reduces appetite.

This is likely because protein changes the levels of several hormones, such as the hunger hormone ghrelin and a fullness hormone called peptide YY (, , , ).

Greek yogurt or a handful of nuts or seeds are good choices for extra protein.

SUMMARY If you eat breakfast cereal, make sure it's low in sugar and high in fiber. Pay attention to portion sizes, and always read the ingredients list. You can also enrich your cereal by adding your own protein.

If you are hungry in the morning, you should eat breakfast. However, it's best to choose whole, single-ingredient foods.

Here are a few great choices:

oatmeal with raisins and nuts

Greek yogurt with nuts and sliced fruit

scrambled eggs with vegetables

Whole eggs are an excellent breakfast choice because they're high in protein, healthy fats, and nutrients. What's more, they keep you full for a long time and may even boost weight loss.

One study in teenage girls found that a high-protein breakfast of eggs and lean beef increased fullness. It also reduced cravings and late-night snacking ().

Other studies note that replacing a grain-based breakfast with eggs can help you feel fuller for the next 36 hours - and lose up to 65% more weight (, ).

SUMMARY It's best to choose whole foods like eggs for breakfast, as they're very nutritious and filling. High-protein breakfasts may help reduce cravings and promote weight loss.

Breakfast cereals are highly processed, often packed with added sugar and refined carbs. Their packages regularly have misleading health claims.

If you eat cereal, read the ingredients list and approach health claims with skepticism. The best cereals are high in fiber and low in sugar.

That said, many healthier breakfast options exist. Whole, single-ingredient foods - such as oat porridge or eggs - are a great choice.

Preparing a healthy breakfast from whole foods is not only simple but starts your day with plenty of nutrition.

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Do you want to understand how breads impact your daily diet? This infographic explains the breakdown of nutrients you get in your daily diet. Grains make up 50% of your calories. They provide you with 60% of your daily carbohydrates, 80% of your fiber, 20% of the sugar you need and 80% of the folate you should have each day. In addition, breads provide 70% of the iron you need and 50% of the sodium you should have each day.
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Do you want to understand how breads impact your daily diet? This infographic explains the breakdown of nutrients you get in your daily diet. Grains make up 50% of your calories. They provide you with 60% of your daily carbohydrates, 80% of your fiber, 20% of the sugar you need and 80% of the folate you should have each day.

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The Kelloggs

The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D. (View Bio)
Hardcover: Pantheon Books, 2017.

The story of the two Kellogg brothers is a fascinating part of American history. One became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War I, a best-selling author, lecturer, and health magazine publisher, and founded the world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium. The other founded the Kellogg Company and became one of the world's richest men.

In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the saga of these two extraordinary men whose lifelong competition with each other changed notions of health and nutrition and helped alter the course of American medicine.

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, internationally known and revered, was the foremost advocate of the pursuit of wellness for almost seventy years. At his famous medical center, which was also a spa and grand hotel, his patients included Mary Todd Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, Johnny Weissmuller, George Bernard Shaw, and U.S. presidents from William Howard Taft to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

His brother, Will, who with John experimented on malt, wheat, and corn meal to make a product he called corn flakes, saw the cereal as a potential gold mine, especially after John's former patient, C.W. Post, stole the Kellogg recipes and started his own food company. His Post Toasties, Grape Nuts, and Postum were devoured by millions, and the Postum Cereal Company eventually became General Foods.

Will Kellogg founded his own rival firm, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which became the immensely successful Kellogg Company. Among the many Kellogg products that became household staples are Corn Flakes, Special K, Raisin Bran, Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, Eggo Waffles, Pop-Tarts, Keebler Cookies, and Pringles Potato Chips. Success brought enmity between the brothers, andMarkel describes their varied fortunes in an unforgettable tale of American drive and industriousness.

Chosen a "Best Book of 2017" by the Boston Globe and Kirkus Reviews

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography

"Magnificent.... This is the best sort of biography, one that reveals the dialectic between, in this case, two individuals and their historical circumstances, between their contribution (for better or worse) and the times that gave rise to them." - Katherine A. Powers, Literary Hub (Read the full review)

" The Kelloggs, is a serious and in every way commendable book - in its painstaking research, its superb prose and storytelling, and most importantly, its energy and spirit.... Chapter by chapter, in one finely crafted paragraph after another, Markel holds your interest. The Kelloggs is a highly satisfying book, a cultural history in the best tradition of...how one seemingly incidental element of a period can illuminate a whole society and its shifting tastes and values." - David Walton, The Dallas Morning News (Read the full review)

"Study your Corn Flakes in the morning and you may be hard pressed to see them as the product of high drama. But as biographer Howard Markel reveals, ferocious fraternal rivalries went into their creation. Markel's new book, The Kelloggs vividly recounts the contentious story of two men behind the early 20th century's revolution in ready-to-eat foods.... The book is lively throughout as it delivers a tale both personal in its intensity and grand in its scope." - Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune (Read the full review)

"Markel, the author of three previous, well-received histories has, by reaching into a simple box of cornflakes, come up with a rich and satisfying account of the lives, work and enmity of two warring brothers and of a pivotal epoch in American history." - Katherine A. Powers, Newsday (Read the full review)

"The story of an epic lifelong feud between the Kellogg brothers is a compelling yarn and a fascinating window into the genesis of both modern medicine and management.... Howard Markel paints a vivid portrait of the brothers and their era. The period from the late 19th to early 20th century was one of breathtaking scientific and economic advancement, and each Kellogg played an important role in spawning and exploiting these developments.... The Kelloggs tells a good story of how an epically dysfunctional family produced two monumentally successful institutions." - Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times (Read the full review)

"A dual biography of the highly successful Kellogg brothers, who 'fought, litigated, and plotted against one another with a passion more akin to grand opera than the kinship of brothers.' One brother invented Corn Flakes, and the other was the most famous doctor of his time. They hated each other. Readers who suspect their lives might provide entertainment will not be disappointed by this delightful biography by Markel. In 1876, physician John Harvey Kellogg (1853-1943) took charge of a small Battle Creek sanitarium that followed Seventh-Day Adventist principles of vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. A charismatic promoter and author, he vastly expanded the sanitarium and became a world-famous media doctor. His advice represented a vast improvement over 19th-century practices of infrequent bathing, excessive use of alcohol, and a diet heavy on meat, fat, and sugar. He was prescient in advocating exercise, clean water, stress reduction, and plenty of sleep but also relentless enemas, as little sex as possible, and absolutely no masturbation. No businessman, John hired his brother Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951) to manage the enterprise, rewarding his efficiency with low pay and no respect. It was only in 1906 that 46-year-old Will escaped, launched the Kellogg Company, and made a fortune. John responded with more than a decade of lawsuits and a lifetime of sniping. Markel refreshingly resists the temptation-not resisted by films and novels-to deliver caricatures. Embracing scientific medicine, John was a skilled, respected surgeon who was charitable and uninterested in riches. Will was a brilliant entrepreneur, a considerate boss, and founder of a world-class humanitarian foundation. The author effectively shows the brothers' 'remarkable success was mutually dependent if not outright synergistic.' A superb warts-and-all account of two men whose lives help illuminate the rise of health promotion and the modern food industry." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Markel tells the turbulent tale of 'The Cain and Abel of America's Heartland': Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his younger brother Will Keith Kellogg. They endured a symbiotic and cut-throat fraternal relationship. The bickering brother's food fights involved years of lawsuits. Both survived into their nineties without ever reconciling, yet they are forever linked to revolutionizing breakfast with ready-to-eat cereals, particularly Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Physician John was brilliant, narcissistic, and temperamental. He advocated 'biologic living,' a holistic approach to wellness and longevity, and was obsessed with body cleanliness and bowel movements. He was a prolific writer, inventor of medical devices, and creator of many new food products who also performed over 22,000 operations and founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan (a hospital-spa-hotel complex). Will, a lonely man with exceptional organizational skills, business acumen, and a strong work ethic, toiled for his brother for decades before becoming a titan in the food industry. He was a mass-marketing genius and a philanthropist. Markel's amazing amalgamation of biography and history, covering the pursuit of health in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, industrialism, and the invention of cold cereals is adorned with fetching photographs and illustrations. Sibling rivalry has rarely been so dastardly and delectable." - Tony Miksanek, Booklist (starred review)

" The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek is the first and last word on the siblings who made a fortune in health and food manufacturing. And battle they did.... Markel has dived deep into archives and brings an impressive knowledge of American cultural and food history to his account." - Matthew Price, Boston Globe (Read the full review)

"Markel, an M.D., Ph.D. and a medical historian, brings both men to life, especially John, with his white suits, celibate marriage, dietary obsessions and embrace of the now discredited field of eugenics. Markel's at his best writing about medicine, and his accounts of 19th- and early 20th-century hospitals and treatments will make you very glad you live in the 21st." - Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times (Read the full review)

"For 60 years, John Harvey Kellogg-prescient and kooky-was the most famous doctor in America. His life's work was intertwined with that of his younger brother, Will, who helped run the San before starting the Kellogg cereal company. Their dramatic, poignant family saga is well told by medical historian Howard Markel in The Kelloggs. Jealousy, mistrust, and meanness strained their relationship: They sued each other over the cereal company (Will prevailed); took credit separately for shared accomplishments; and, Markel writes, spurred each other on to greater success than they might have otherwise achieved." - Susan Berfield, Bloomberg News

"In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel, a physician and professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan, tells the fascinating (and intertwined) stories of the brothers, who, it turns out, hated one another.... As Markel examines a rivalry that lasted for 70 years (and made its way into boardrooms and courtrooms), he illuminates medical, nutritional and business practices in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, and the ways in which John and Will were - and were not - men of their times. Breaking with conventional wisdom, Markel reveals, John Kellogg insisted that his patients move about as soon as possible after surgery, and remain hydrated. He warned that fashionable, tight-fitting corsets caused muscle injuries, poor posture, and damage to digestive and reproductive organs. Published in 1922, his book Tobaccoism, or How Tobacco Kills, maintained that cigarette smoking is addictive. Equally prescient were his advocacy of psyllium as a laxative, his studies of soy milk as a treatment for bowel problems in infants, and his role in developing bran cereals, fiber bars and nut foods.... Markel documents the substantial and destructive character flaws and errors of judgment of each of the two brothers. More importantly, he gives them their due." - Glenn C. Altschuler, San Francisco Chronicle (Read the full review)

"In this rollicking tale of family intrigue and inventiveness, Howard Markel traces the lives of the Kellogg brothers, describing how they started the world down the path to packaged foods. This full exegesis of their unseemly personalities makes for a riveting read." - Andrew Solomon

"The story of the Kellogg Brothers is the story of innovation, of determination, and the creation of a giant industry as American business came of age just prior to the Second World War. It is a tale of grit, controversy, faith and the emergence of the 'wellness' movement. In the hands of Markel, a trained historian, physician, seasoned writer and chronicler of America, this tale comes alive. A fabulous read." - Abraham Verghese

"Markel's The Kelloggs recounts the incredible exploits of the amazing Kellogg Brothers-John and Will-who turned nineteenth-century medicine upside down for the better. Markel does a marvelous job recounting the birth of the Kellogg cereal empire and the Battle Creek sanitarium. An amazing American story!" - Douglas Brinkley

"Howard Markel's riveting, deeply researched new book covers vast territory: the saga of the squabbling Kellogg brothers ('magnificent showmen, resolute empire builders, and unwavering visionaries'), their mass-branding of breakfast cereals, their concept of 'wellness', and their enormous influence on the diet of millions of Americans. This book arrives at a pivotal moment in our own history when mass-marketing, showmanship and the media deserve particularly deep study. Markel's incandescent scholarship and his incisive analysis shine through this book. The Kelloggs can certainly be read as a biography of two visionaries (and their extended families), but it also deserves to be read as a case study by generations of future readers." - Siddhartha Mukherjee

"A fascinating look at two people who helped shape a pivotal time." - Publishers Weekly

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Crop Circle Yearbook 2003

A pictorial tour of crop circles and their landscapes
Happy 5th Anniversary!
The Crop Circle Year Book 2003 marks the fifth anniversary of this series of unique books by photographer Steve Alexander and writer Karen Douglas. This popular collection of full colour, fine-art reproduction photographic books records the passing beauty of the crop circles each summer.

This eagerly awaited new edition will be the most up-to-date pictorial guide to the phenomenon currently available, covering a selection of the best formations from the 2003 season, with essays and commentary text. Includes contributions from circles researcher Michael Glickman and poet Paul Bura.

Published by Temporary Temple Press 2003.
ISBN: 0-9537446-4-7

The Book is 11.8 x 8.6 inches (30 x 22cm, A4 size), 24 pages (not including front and back covers). Each book is sent in a sealed plastic wrapper within a board-backed envelope to make sure it reaches you in perfect condition.

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Views from the Crop Circle Frontline

8.95 / $14.50, 176 pages, paperback, Vital Signs Publishing/S B Publications, ISBN

1-85770-272-7

"Andy's well-balanced approach is honest, forthright and, above all,

entirely compelling" - SIR LAURENCE GARDNER (from his foreword for the book)

A lively and sometimes controversial collection of pieces, SWIRLED HARVEST is a fascinating journey deep into the world of the circle mystery and its associated areas - as seen by those involved at the heart of it. The book explores this remarkable arena and its amazing findings, meets some of its colourful characters, recounts some notable events and records the thrills and disappointments of trying to wave a flag for the reality of something so often unfairly debunked by the outside world.

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The Power of Collective Thought and Signs of Our Times

7.95 / $13.00, 144 pgs, paperback, Vital Signs Publishing, ISBN

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A ONENESS OF MIND is a valuable and inspiring record of some extraordinary presentations, and essential reading for anyone with an interest in positively shaping the future of our world.

"Andy puts an exciting, witty case for the application of positive thought by all of us to influence the global decision-making process"

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CROP CIRCLES
Signs of Contact

A pictorial tour of crop circles and their landscapes

This is the fourth in a series of year books by photographer Steve Alexander and writer Karen Douglas. This popular series of full colour, fine-art reproduction photographic books records the beauty of the crop circles each summer.

This new edition will be the most up-to-date pictorial guide the phenomenon currently available, covering a selection of the best formations from the 2002 season, with essays and commentary text. Click to see a review at Swirled News.

Published by Temporary Temple Press 2002.
ISBN: 0-9537446-3-9

The Book is 11.8 x 8.6 inches (30 x 22cm, A4 size), 24 pages (not including front and back covers). Each book is sent in a sealed plastic wrapper within a board-backed envelope to make sure it reaches you in perfect condition.

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Opening MindsA Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance.

By Simeon Hein, PH.D Introducing a social scientist's candid discussion on the science, mystery, and meaning of human perception, crop circles, and subtle energies. How to order: Available from Atlas Books, (Call 1-800-247-6553 or visit www.AtlasBooks.com) Quality Books, Amazon.com, and 1stBooks.com. ISBN 0-9715863-0-6 $19.95 includes over 65 figures & illustrations and 35 pages with colour photos. For bulk orders, contact the publisher, The Mount Baldy Press, 303-440-7393 and visit www.ExtraordinaryEncounters.com.

KORNKREISE

Geometric, Phanomene, Forschung
by Andreas Muller

Publisher AT Verlag 2001

ISBN 3-855502-760-9

CROP CIRCLE
YEAR BOOK 2001!

A Pictorial Tour of Crop Circles & their Landscapes

By Steve Alexander & Karen Douglas
Buy online here What can one really say about this book? Well, if your searching for a comprehensive set of images, and facts about the most impressive formations of 2001, this is the book for you! It is packed with stunning images from the 2001 season, and demonstrates quite clearly that this is truly a breathtaking phenomenon, taking us into a new millennium .

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CROP CIRCLES REVEALED
Language of the Light Symbols by Judith Moore & Barbara Lamb Light Technology Publishing, 2001 ISBN 1-891824-32-5 $25 Please note: people can also order the book by going to the website:
www.blambms.com and paying through PayPal with a credit card. This book explores what the phenomenon represents to us all, at this critical time of human history, and moves away from the controversy of what makes them. Out of this, comes a new understanding from a combination of channelled investigations, that will ultimately help people survive in the new millennium.

The Deepening Complexity of CROP CIRCLES Scientific Research & Urban Legends By Eltjo H. Haselhoff, Ph.D Frog, Ltd. Berkeley, California. 2001
(www.northatlanticbooks.com)ISBN 9-781583-940464 $20 ($32.50 Cdn)

This book is a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon, with scientific investigations into numerous anomalies that are becoming more frequent. Read about first hand accounts of witnesses, not only of the creation of crop circles, but also strange events surrounding them. One conclusion you will have from this book, that is "Something very strange is going on.

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CROP CIRCLE WISDOM
SIMPLE TEACHINGS FROM THE CIRCLEMAKERS
by Denni Clarke

CROP CIRCLES
BY CAROLYN NORTH

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CROP CIRCLE YEAR BOOK 2000

The Crop Circle Year Book 2000 is the second in a series of yearbooks by photographer Steve Alexander & writer Karen Douglas portraying the beautiful and mysterious crop circle phenomenon in the UK. Containing a remarkable selection of full colour photographic images covering the most dramatic events of the year 2000 crop circle season, with aerial photography, unique interior landscapes, observations and field notes.

Follow this enigmatic and exquisite symbolic art form through the fields of the English countryside and discover the way in which this phenomenon is seen to create contemporary sacred spaces in this celebrated and mythical landscape. With an exclusive foreword by John Michell, this unique book will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date pictorial guide to the very latest crop circle formations.

Das Geheimnis de Kornkreise By Werner Anderhub & Hans Peter Roth

The book is written in German, contains about 220 photographs (110 in
high colour quality) and gives a complete survey about the crop circles in Switzerland. It is a bestseller and was for 8 month at the top on the
non-fiction book-list (within 12 month sold 40'000 copies)
it will be translated into American English in autumn 2001. A German publication in 2000

ISBN 3-85502-694-7

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A New Crop Circle Book Crop Circle Pictures 2000 A Japanese publication only available. ISBN4-901200-02-X Contact: Seiichi Nakazato
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by Eltjo H. Haselhoff, Ph.D.

Published by Frog Ltd., Berkeley, USA
Appears in Spring 2001

Dutch Version

English Version

The Crop Circle Enigma - Facts, Analysis, Hypotheses by Dr. Eltjo H. Haselhoff

This new Scientific publication with an historical overview of the phenomenon is only available in the Dutch Version at this present time. The English version will be announced in the near future. It can be obtained directly from the author through the Crop Circle Connector.

We have added a Synopsis of the book in English.

We are delighted to present the image of the book cover of Het Raadsel van de Graancirkels. This is the Dutch version of Dr Eltjo's new publication.

Crop Circles the Book - Steve Alexander

This book features 14 crop circles images photographed between 1994 to 1997. published in 1998

VITAL SIGNS - Andy Thomas

Published by S.B. Publications in 1998.

The Latest Edition is available now. CROP CIRCLES DECIPHERED
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A New Crop Circle Book Crop Circle Pictures 1999 A Japanese publication only available. Contact: Seiichi Nakazato
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CROP CIRCLES, GODS AND THEIR SECRETS by Robert J. Boerman

Want to read something new concerning the mysterious crop circles? Want to know how to decode crop circles? Take a look at http://go.to/boerman and there you can read about the latest crop circle book. A book with a breakthrough incrop circle history. Now we able to read the messages that were hidden in crop circles for all those years now. Messages which contain the complete history of mankind, but not as we thought it was. A history that the old Sumerian people already knew for
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In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries." They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to live in Cambodia, i.e., they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. "Neak sre" tries to share this way of life, to demonstrate the fragile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents.

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Rice People

Directed by
Rithy Panh

Produced by

Jacques Bidou
Pierre-Alain Meier

Written by

Ève Deboise
Rithy Panh

Based on

No Harvest But a Thorn
by Shahnon Ahmad

Starring

Peng Phan
Mom Soth
Chhim Naline

Music by

Jean-Claude Brisson
Marc Marder

Cinematography

Jacques Bouquin

Edited by

Andrée Davanture
Marie-Christine Rougerie

Distributed by

Facets Video

125 minutes

Country

Cambodia

Language

Khmer

Rice People ( Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, Neak sre) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post- Khmer Rouge Cambodia, struggling to bring in a single season's rice crop. It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River. The cast features both professional and non-professional actors.

The film premiered in the main competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

In Cambodia, where families were torn apart in the communist Khmer Rouge's genocidal bid to transform the country into an agrarian utopia, it is ironic that people have lost touch with the land. For a generation of children, the rice comes not from the ground, but from a sack, offloaded from the back of a United Nations relief truck.

So it is in these uncertain times, that a Cambodian family is attempting to grow rice. The father, Pouev, is concerned that the family's plot of land is shrinking, and he might not be able to grow a big enough crop.

The mother, Om, is worried for her husband, and her worst fears are confirmed when Poeuv steps on a poisonous thorn, and then, after a protracted period of being bedridden, dies of infection.

Om is unable to handle the pressure of being the head of the family, nor does she have the strength to tend to the rice fields. She turns to alcohol and gambling and is eventually locked up for her mental illness.

Responsibility for bringing in the crop and raising her six sisters falls on the oldest girl, Sakha.

Peng Phan as Om

Mom Soth as Poeuv

Chhim Naline as Sakha

Va Simorn as Sokhoeun

Sophy Sodany as Sokhon

Muong Danyda as Sophon

Pen Sopheary as Sophoeun

Proum Mary as Sophat

Sam Kourour as Sopheap

Rice People premiered at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival in the main competition for the Palme d'Or, a prize that went to Pulp Fiction. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted to the Academy Awards.

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Rice People Directed by Rithy Panh Produced by Jacques BidouPierre-Alain Meier Written by Ève Deboise Rithy Panh Based on No Harvest But a Thorn by Shahnon Ahmad Starring Peng Phan Mom Soth Chhim Naline Music by Jean-Claude BrissonMarc Marder Cinematography Jacques Bouquin Edited by Andrée DavantureMarie-Christine Rougerie Distributed by Facets Video 125 minutes Country Cambodia Language Khmer Rice People ( Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, Neak sre) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh.

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Why do Americans eat Kelloggs for breakfast?

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Why do Americans eat Kelloggs for breakfast?

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How an accidental invention changed what Americans eat for breakfast

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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel, Pantheon, 544 pages, Hardcover, August 2017, ISBN 9780307907271

John Harvey Kellogg was one of the America's foremost luminaries, a widely respected, celebrity-of-his-day physician famous for having "introduced and mass marketed the concept of 'wellness.'" His Battle Creek Sanitarium was world famous, attracting the most wealthy and famous people of the day. Will Keith Kellogg was one of America's greatest industrialist magnates, who built an empire on one of the brothers' wellness inventions-flaked breakfast cereal. One was a giant of intellect, another of industry, and they would change the way the world eats breakfast. But that's not all. Howard Markel, in a brilliant (and big!) new biography of the two brothers, The Kelloggs, tells us:

The brothers also developed a successful medical publishing house, an exercise machine and electrical "sunbath" firm, cooking, medical, and nursing schools, an undergraduate college, and sundry other profitable health product companies. Yet throughout these endeavors and for most of their lives, the "Kellogg boys" hated each other's guts.

John, for all his great attributes, did not display much in the way of one of the greatest-brotherly love-even toward his actual brother, eight years his junior. He had a vicious cruel streak, and ruled over the Sanitarium with an iron hand and expansive ego, constantly diminishing and demeaning Will for the over two decades they worked together.

But the story begins with the Kellogg family's arrival in Battle Creek, Michigan, before the brothers were born. The family endured a hard frontier life there, at a time when the average life expectancy hovered around forty years old. Being a historian of medicine, the author tells the story of life there largely in those terms, detailing the Kellogg family's many afflictions. Their father John Preston almost dies multiple times, and the way doctors (mis)treated him of his various afflictions would be humorous if it weren't so horrifying. His first wife, Mary Ann, in addition to working dawn to dusk every day of her life, is also almost constantly pregnant or nursing, giving birth to five children before dying of consumption days before her thirtieth birthday. Their father's second wife, Ann Janette, first got to know the family as a teenager when she was hired to help look after the children and maintain the household as Mary Ann convalesced. When Mary Ann died, John Preston convinced her to return and become his wife, and:

Ann Janette reared five small children grieving the loss of their mother all the while she delivered another eleven babies to the Kellogg brood.

John Harvey and Will Keith were two of those eleven. But death and disease were their almost constant companion in their early years:

John Preston and the late Mary Ann's two daughters (Julia, age thirteen, and Martha, age twelve), both died of infectious maladies in 1852, in addition to four more of Anne Jeanette's children who died between 1849 and 1858.

John Harvey Kellogg himself lost a lung to tuberculosis before he turned 20, and suffered from severe colitis that led to frequent constipation and hemorrhoids, and eventually to "one of the most painful, chronic maladies known to man, an anal fissure, which is, literally, a tear in that highly sensitive spot." I will spare you the details here. Markel will not. What it demonstrates is a deeply personal motivation and back-story to the development of ready-to-eat breakfast grains to replace the heavier, fattier breakfasts Americans were used to in an effort to help end the scourge of what Walt Whitman called "the great American evil"-indigestion. The diet of Americans at this time was atrocious, and Markel tells us the elder John Kellogg suffered from a decades-long diarrhea.

For his part, Will Keith suffered from several bouts of malaria, common in both the Deep South and up through Midwest and the time. "The entire state of Michigan," he later wrote, "was known for its malaria."

Other than their endurance of childhood illnesses, the brothers had little in common. John was boastful and outgoing where Will was insecure and shy. Where John was always the brightest student in any room, Will was considered the slowest, in part due to a severe nearsightedness that went undiagnosed until he was 20 years old. John was hired at twelve to work in Church Review and Herald Publishing Company, which espoused the health reform principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and was sent to Medical School by Adventist leaders James and Ellen White. Will cut his chops working in, and eventually running, his father's broom factory. He would eventually hit the road as the firm's traveling salesman, try to save his brother Albert's broom firm in Kalamazoo (a town he would later return to attend business college), and helped a son of the Whites run a broom factory in far-off Houston. Even those brooms had a role to play in the message of the Adventist faith, reinforcing the idea of keeping the home healthy and clean.

But the story really picks up when John returns from Belleview Hospital Medical College in New York City. Upon his return, at the tender age of twenty-four, he took up the reigns of the Adventists' failing Western Health Reform Institute. But his age belied his sense of importance. He demanded independence to follow a scientific path rather than purely Adventist one, and was authoritarian in his leadership once he had it, tolerating no challenge-even from his former benefactors and founders of the Institute, James and Ellen White. He changed the name to Battle Creek Sanitarium, and spent the years from 1876 to 1890 quickly expanding its scientific mission and physical footprint:

Thus, in a span of only fourteen years, the Sanitarium's physical plant evolved from a two-story converted home into a massive, beautiful, and luxurious medical center; it was so grand that it employed over one thousand people, cared for seven to ten thousand patients each year, farmed over four hundred acres of land to grow the vegetables, fruit, and dairy products his guests consumed daily, and operated a canning and food manufacturing facility, laundry, charity hospital, creamery, and a resort comprised of twenty cottages (reserved for the most wealthy of the worried well) overlooking Goguac Lake.

But, "Without fear of contradiction," Markel insists, "the most important move John made in insuring the Sanitarium's success began in 1880 when he hired Will as his assistant." It was Will that oversaw all of the editing, printing, binding, and distribution of his brother's many books and magazines, managed the health food company and various medical manufacturing concerns of the Sanitarium, as well as the overall administration of the entire Battle Creek Sanitarium itself. John was the Sanitarium's undisputed star and figurehead, but it was Will who really ran the daily operations of the place:

Few people said loudly, at least in the doctor's presence, but it was widely accepted that that the Sanitarium prospered because of two Kelloggs, not one. The doctor was the San's showman and carnival barker while Will kept the place running smoothly and served as the brake to his brother's tendency to make poor and costly business decisions.

As mentioned above, the brothers had their hands in many different enterprises, but the undisputed, if unlikely star, is flaked grain. To get there we first get a good education in gastroenterology and Dr. Kellogg's central role in that burgeoning field at the time. When we get the history of the cereal itself, we come to understand the important role the doctor's wife Ella played in the process of inventing flaked cereal, and so much else at the Sanitarium. Will and John spent countless hours experimenting with different production techniques, and Will eventually perfected the manufacturing process and made it into the Sanitarium's most successful product. But John was always resistant to marketing it more widely, hindering what would prove to be explosive potential for growth.

If his most important move was to hire Will, his most destructive was treating him so horrendously. He was forced to work as many as 120 hours per week away from his growing family, and was poorly paid. He was never given an official title, and didn't get his own office until 1890, when he was afforded what amounted to a dark closet. All the while, he was also required to act as personal valet to his brother, even trimming his beard and shining his shoes for him. It gets worse:

While making he rounds across the Sanitarium's vast campus, Dr. Kellogg often rode his bicycle from building to building while insisting that his brother, pad and paper in hand, jog along side him recording his every creative thought. At other times, the doctor demanded Will accompany him into the bathroom, a la Lyndon Johnson, so as not to waste any time even as he defecated.

He endured such treatment as the Sanitarium's bookkeeper, a "business manager without official title," as Markel puts it, for over two decades before he left to start his own enterprise. It was not an amicable exit, but he did secure John's approval to start a corn flakes cereal company in return for cash and stock in the company, and:

A mere three years later, Will's company was producing 120,000 cases of Corn Flakes a day.

And then John sued him. John lost, and it poisoned their relationship even further-ending any hope of affability between them for the rest of their lives.

The corporate history of Kellogg's, however, was just beginning. The lessons offered there-on entrepreneurship, marketing and advertising, kindness and compassion in leadership, and sound management of both business and philanthropy-are many. It is also a great history of the industry, and the industries around it. You'll learn about Kellogg's competition: which included Henry Perky, inventor of the Shredded Wheat that predated the Kellogg's Corn Flakes and that John tried to buy before the brothers found the secret to their recipe, and Charles W. Post, the inventor of Grape-Nuts, who was a former Sanitarium patient who worked on the Kellogg's experiments and absconded with their recipes and started a rival company right in Battle Creek. Kellogg and Post, of course, remain competitors to this day. And both, the companies that have brought us the likes of Sugar Smack, Pop-Tarts, and Cocoa Pebbles for breakfast, were started as health food companies. (Most nutritionists today, Markel informs us, don't think flaked grain cereal is especially good for you, either.)

There's no better midsummer's read, in my mind, than a biography or narrative big enough to act as a doorstop. The Kelloggs offers even more. I haven't even been able to scratch the surface of it all here. I'm probably doing John a bad turn here by not mentioning the many ways in which he was charitable, kind, and good. I didn't even touch on the fire that destroyed the Sanitarium six months after Will left to start his own cereal company, or how he returned for over two years to help rebuild it-two years he described as the hardest of his life. One could devote an entire review to the large swaths of the book on Kellogg's, the company, alone-which I may have done had I not written so many words before that tale begins, on page 236! The Kelloggs is a brilliant biography, a medical and industrial (even natural and environmental) history, a great lesson in entrepreneurship, leadership, and management, and a great family drama all rolled into one.

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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel, Pantheon, 544 pages, Hardcover, August 2017, ISBN 9780307907271 John Harvey Kellogg was one of the America's foremost luminaries, a widely respected, celebrity-of-his-day physician famous for having "introduced and mass marketed the concept of 'wellness.'" His Battle Creek Sanitarium was world famous, attracting the most wealthy and famous people of the day.