Ye Olde Cleanse Diet with Zoë Rom of 'Your Diet Sucks'
About this episode
The episode explores the history of clean living movements in America, featuring journalist Zoë Rom discussing bizarre health ideas from the 19th century.
For all of American history, we have been obsessed with the idea that what you eat is about more than just the purity of the body, it’s about a kind of metaphorical purity as well. For this episode, journalist Zoe Rom, co-host of the podcast Your Diet Sucks takes us through our strange history of clean living movements focusing on quacky 19th century characters and their bizarre and sometimes dangerous ideas about health, as well as the outrageous methods they used on their adherents, men like Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham crackers, and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of Corn Flakes. We discuss the biblical origins of clean living movements, what health food purity has to do with Eugenics, and how these ideas have followed us through the many stages of this nation’s history, manifesting again in the culture and politics of today. Subscribe to Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts Zoë's Website Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Get some of our new merch at americanhysteria.com, all profits this…
More episodes of American Hysteria
- Baby Got Backstory with Heather Radke
- Solar Storms and the Carrington Event with Ben Bradford of 'Are We Doomed?'
- KU KLUX SCAM pt. 2
- KU KLUX SCAM pt. 1
- Rednecks (rewind)
- The Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps with Harrison Hill
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the American Hysteria podcast page.