Dr. John Harvey Kellogg: The First American To Realize Soy Was Important In Our Diet (Video).

While reading one of my textbooks for massage school I came across a man named Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who had his own clinic with alternative healing options and massage. His clinic was called Battle Creek Sanitarium and his practices were based on the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming (advent) of Jesus Christ. Their is also a movie I just watched about Dr. Kellogg called The Road To Wellville:

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

Battle Creek Sanitarium:

haha I like this one below…SUN GALORE:

The complex was purchased by the U.S. Army during World War II and converted into the Percy Jones Army Hospital. The facility later became the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center.

and is now…

The Dr, Kellogg was also one of the first Americans to realize the great potential of soy in human diets. Kellogg developed America’s first meat analogs, which became the prototypes for all the many soy-based meat analogs subsequently developed by Adventist companies such as Madison Foods, International Nutrition Laboratory, Loma Linda Foods, Worthington Foods, and a host of others. Kellogg also developed the first acidophilus soymilk. His writings and teachings on diet and health, as well as on soyfoods, affected the lives of hundreds of thousands and had a strong impact on most of America’s early Seventh-day Adventist soyfoods pioneers (soyinfocenter para 1).

Kellogg studied for a regular one-year term at the University of Michigan Medical School. He later transferred to Bellevue Hospital Medical College, then recognized as the nation’s leading medical school, from which he received his MD degree in 1875. In his graduation thesis entitled “What is Disease?”, he attempted to show that most disease, rather than being considered an enemy, should be thought of as a helpful warning from the body attempting to correct a natural function that had become “deranged.” And pain should be thought of as a prompting to the sufferer to stop violating the natural laws of good health (Schwartz 1970; Johns and Utt 1977).

I love Dr. Kellogg’s thesis on disease and pain! Although, pain and disease is a shame and completly stinks…it remindes a person to get back on the right track to health.

Among Dr. Kellogg’s patients were William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Alfred Dupont, J.C. Penny, Montgomery Ward, Lowell Thomas, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and many others. Soon Dr. Kellogg’s views on diet and health spread across America and around the world (soyinfocenter para 4).

William Howard Taft was the 27th President and and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). He is the only person to have served in both of these offices.

William Jennings Bryan was was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party’s candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908).

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist who was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family.

Alfred I. duPont was an American industrialist, financier and philanthropist and a member of the influential Du Pont family.

James Cash Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded the J. C. Penney stores.

…so as can you seen Dr. Kellogg was a big deal back in his time.

Dr. Kellogg expanded on Ellen G. White’s teachings to develop a holistic approach to natural healing and healthful living that he called “Biologic Living.” His first love was his mission to promote the “Gospel of Health,” which included a simple grain-based vegetarian diet, exercise, hydrotherapy, fresh air and sunshine, good posture and dress, good mental health, and, when unavoidable, expert surgery. Biologic Living was preventive medicine at its best and its keystone, Kellogg felt, was proper diet. Dr. Kellogg strongly opposed the use of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, caffeine, sugar, narcotics, meat, and strong or hot spices. He disapproved of the use of eggs and grudgingly accepted the use of small amounts of milk and freshly-made cheese. However he heartily approved of yogurt and by 1909 became one of the first Americans to sell it and promote its use.

Dr. Kellogg was an amazing human being! He was at the height of 5ft 4in and sadly ruined his left lung before he was 20 because it was destroyed by tuberculosis. While he was alive he had lots of energy and only needed to sleep 4-5 hours a night and went jogging/cycling every morning. He adopted 42 children, wrote almost 50 books, edited a major magazine, performed more than 22,000 operations, gave virtually all of his money to charitable organizations, loved human service, generally accomplished the work of ten active people, and lived in good health to age 91.

Massage

One of Kellogg’s most important achievements was the early standardization of his massage techniques. He set about writing “The Art of Massage” to “eliminate the unnecessary and inefficient, and to develop and perfect those methods capable of securing most definite and prompt results.”

Kellogg was a firm believer in education. He believed a “practical study of anatomy was absolutely indispensable,” to the proper understanding of massage and its skillful application, and “it was highly important that the masseur or student of massage should have a good knowledge of the physiology of the nervous system.”

Kellogg spent many years researching his techniques, and was able to document the results of his hard work scientifically. He understood the value of massage and touch, defining it as “not simply an ordinary touch or contact of the hand with the body, but a skilled or professional touch. It is a touch applied with intelligence, with control, with a purpose, and simply as it is, capable of producing decided physiological effects.” Because of his investigations into the study and application of massage, he established beyond all question that “massage affords one of the most effective means of influencing the functions of the human body.”  (massagetoday para 2).

Cereal anyone?

America’s first successful cold breakfast cereal, brand-named Granula and made entirely from wheat, had been developed in 1860 by Dr. James Caleb Jackson, the health reformer mentioned above. In about 1877 Kellogg developed a similar product from a mixture of several well-baked grains and called it Granola. Dr. Jackson had developed a coffee substitute called Somo; Dr. Kellogg made a similar Caramel Cereal Coffee from a mixture of roasted bran and molasses. (He later developed other coffee substitutes.) (soyinfocenter para. 9).

so what was the purpose of reading this?

Eat your yogurt, get exercise, be outside for sunshine (Vitamin D), eat mostly fruits/vegetables, be kind, share, and eat Non-GMO Soy for good health!

Happy Earth Day!

Stay groovy!

Sincerely,

Radical Rose

Resources:

http://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/john_kellogg_and_battle_creek_foods.php

http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=14446