The person responsible for the great American custom of having cornflakes for breakfast was the vegetarian health faddist John Harvey Kellogg. 美国人早餐吃玉米片这一习俗最早是由约翰●维●洛格发起的。他是一个素食主义者,健康的狂热追求者。
faddist
[ noun ] a person who subscribes to a variety of fads <noun.person>
Fad \Fad\ (f[a^]d), n. [Cf. {Faddle}.] 1. A hobby; freak; whim.
It is your favorite fad to draw plans. --G. Eliot.
2. a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time; as, the latest fad in fashion.
Syn: craze; mania. [PJC] -- {Fad"dist}, n. -- {Fad"dish}, a.
faddist \faddist\ n. a person who subscribes to a variety of fads. [WordNet 1.5]
"There's a faddist group among active people, and they've already gone on to a third and fourth thing," says Thomas B. Doyle, research director at the National Sporting Goods Association.