Corn Flakes were invented to stop masturbation
"In 1898, John Harvey Kellog introduced another health food known as "Corn Flakes." Corn Flakes — like Graham Crackers and Granola — were designed to avoid inflaming the sexual appetite. At that time, they were not sweetened with sugar. Kellogg believed that sugar was unhealthy and associated with vice and degeneracy."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/20-things-you-never-knew-about-popular-inventions