John Harvey Kellogg and the Pursuit of Wellness

It was discovered that John Harvey Kellogg, with the help and financial support of the White family, began studying to become a doctor at the age of fourteen and headed the Battle Creek Sanatorium at a young age, which under his leadership soon became a world-famous health resort. The publishing activity of Kellogg, who was able to raise the popularity of the magazine “Good Health”, repeatedly published his ideas and recommendations in the field of healthy living. Kellogg has repeatedly heard warnings from Ellen White about trying to separate the Sanatorium from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, namely to make the institution non-denominational without promoting Adventist religious ideas. An inventor, a surgeon, a promoter of a healthy lifestyle, a lecturer who has given about five thousand public speeches – these are just some of the things he has managed to do in his life.

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John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1870483 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 77 (3) ◽

pp. 838

Author(s):

David L. Cowen ◽

Richard W. Schwarz

Keyword(s):

John Harvey Kellogg

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John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943): 'Masturbation results in general debility, unnatural pale eyes and forehead acne'

Obesity Reviews ◽

10.1111/j.1467-789x.2006.00247.x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 227-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stephan Rossner

Keyword(s):

John Harvey Kellogg ◽

General Debility

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KELLOGG'S FLAKERY

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.97.4.528 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 528-528

Keyword(s):

Physical Exertion ◽

Seventh Day Adventist ◽

The Other ◽

Meat Eating ◽

Room Service ◽

The One ◽

John Harvey Kellogg

. . . the zenith of America's long obsessive coupling of food with moral rectitude came with a Seventh-Day Adventist doctor named John Harvey Kellogg who in 1876 introduced a regime of treatments that was as bizarre as it was popular. Possibly the two were not unconnected. Patients who were underweight were confined to their beds with sandbags on their abdomens and forced to eat up to twenty-six meals a day. They were not permitted any physical exertion. Even their teeth were brushed by an attendant lest they needlessly expend a calorie. The hypertensive were required to eat grapes and nothing else—up to fourteen pounds of them daily. Others with less easily discernible maladies were confined to wheelchairs for months on end and fed experimental foods such as gluten wafers and "a Bulgarian milk preparation known as yogurt." Kellogg himself was singular in his habits. It was his practice to dictate long tracts on the evils of meat-eating and masturbation (the one evidently led to the other) while seated on the toilet or while riding his bicycle in circles around the lawn. Despite—or very possibly because of—these peculiarities, Kellogg's "Temple of Health" thrived and grew into a substantial complex with such classy amenities as elevators, room service, and a palm house with its own orchestra. Among its devoted and well-heeled patrons were Teddy Roosevelt and John D. Rockefeller.

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