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Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the \"San\" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and presided over by the charismatic Dr. Kellogg, it catered to many well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school, several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a physician and a theological innovator seriously and places his religion of \"Biologic Living\" in an on-going tradition of sacred health and wellness. With the fascinating and unlikely story of the \"San\" as a backdrop, Wilson traces the development of this theology of physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and eugenics in the Progressive Era.

As the late nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, the world was embracing a modern marvel—the incandescent light bulb. Light by fire was quickly becoming passé, and everyone wanted the new symbol of technology and progress in their homes and workplaces. But one man saw the light bulb from a very different perspective. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, most noted for his invention of cornflake cereal, was an American health reformer who always strived to be on the cutting edge of technology. Already using electricity in various ways at his world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, Kellogg saw the new electric light bulb as a means to better health through light therapy. Light therapy, or phototherapy as Kellogg referred to it, was nothing new. Doctors in Europe, such as Auguste Rollier in Switzerland (the Sun Doctor) and Niels Ryberg Finsen in Denmark, were already running successful light therapy programs in their clinics by the time Kellogg came on the scene. Regularly positioning himself as a node in a transatlantic network of health reform, Kellogg, upon visiting both institutions to examine their practices, modified and implemented their programs through his Sanitarium. One of the most noted inventions to come from this transatlantic exchange was Kellogg’s Light Cabinet or the “Light Bath.” Put on display at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, it soon attracted the attention of foreign investors and doctors, and the German Kelloggische Lichtbad was soon found for sale across Germany and Europe. Kellogg’s practice of intercultural transfer led to a full circle of transatlantic exchange as an idea originally from Europe, after modification in America, was exported to its place of origin as something new.

Battle lines have long been drawn over how food is produced, what food is made available to whom, and how best to protect consumers from risky or unhealthy food. Jeffrey Haydu resurrects the history of food reform and protest in Upsetting Food, showing how activists defined food problems, articulated solutions, and mobilized for change in the United States. Haydu's sociological history starts in the 1830s with diet reformer Sylvester Graham, who blamed alcohol and store-bought bread-signs of a commercializing urban society-for poor health and moral decline. His successors at the turn of the twentieth century rallied against impure food and pushed for women to be schooled in scientific food preparation and nutrition. Decades later, in the 1960s and '70s, a grassroots movement for organic food battled commercial food production in favor of food grown ecologically, by small farmers, and without artificial chemicals. Each campaign raised doubts about food safety, health, and transparency, reflecting how a capitalist system can undermine trust in food. But Haydu also considers how each movement reflects the politics, inequalities, and gender relations of its time. And he traces how outcomes of each campaign laid the groundwork for the next. The three eras thus come together as parts of a single, recurring food movement.Upsetting Food offers readers a historical background to better understand contemporary and contentious food politics.

In the past decade, Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) historiography has enjoyed an efflorescence that warrants the attention of church historians. Two notable books mark the surge of interest in Adventism and its prophet: one of them an extraordinary denominational history, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart (1989; 2007); the other an excellent collection of essays, Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet, edited by Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers (2014). Both books remind church historians that Seventh-day Adventism deserves its due as one of America's original religions. Since 2005, however, a number of books have appeared that understandably have received less scrutiny. The Adventist Pioneer Series, in particular, produced by SDA scholars and published by SDA presses, has largely escaped the notice of the wider, non-SDA historical community. This is unfortunate. There is the inevitable unevenness among these volumes, and given their intent to serve a popular Adventist audience, there is also the predictable parochialism in them, in some more than others. Nevertheless, to date there are several books in the series, and no doubt more to follow, which should command serious scholarly interest. To make our way through this largely unfamiliar historiographical landscape calls for a little mapping. Most of these authors come from SDA backgrounds, whatever distance they have gone from them. It will be necessary, then, to reflect on the differences between a historian of Adventism and an Adventist historian, secular versus supernatural history, and apologists who rate scholarly notice and those who do not. It will be important as well to realize that there is no hard, unyielding line between these differences.

This segment of Sunday Morning discusses the Kellogg Company and the invention of of cereal flakes.

Relates the invention of the corn flake by brothers William and John Kellogg. William saw the commercial potential of the new cereal, sued his brother and won the rights to the family name. He then built a large cereal industry, and became a well-known philanthropist, while John died in obscurity. Includes rare footage, archival material, and interviews with family members.