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Who is Dr. John Harvey Kellogg?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was a Seventh-day Adventist and vegetarian. He recommended a plain diet for medical and moral reasons.
John Harvey, the fifth child of his mother, Ann Jeanette, and the tenth of his father, John Preston Kellogg. When he was four years old, his family moved to Battle Creek.
Kellogg studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital College in New York and in 1876 was asked to manage the Western Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan. He changed the Institute’s name to the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
His belief was that a diet high in fat and protein, white bread, coffee and tea, as well as the use of tobacco, could not produce a person chaste in thought. Kellogg was also impressed with writings of Sylvester Graham.
He experiments with pressing grains and nuts between rollers led to successes with flattened kernels of wheat and maize that were baked in the oven and emerged as flakes.
He also developed substitutes for meat and dairy products. He was also an inventor, his most popular creations being the cornflakes breakfast cereal, peanut butter and the electric blanket.
Who is Dr. John Harvey Kellogg?
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Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951)
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