John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) revolutionized the American diet by inventing flaked breakfast cereals first known as Wheat Flakes and Corn Flakes. An avid health reformer, skilled surgeon, and physician, Kellogg's extensive writing and lecturing...

It must have been quite a scene. The little man, no more than five foot four, dressed completely in white, centre stage, playing pitch and catch with a chimp. But there was no ball in sight. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was tossing pieces...

In the thirty-one years of his directorship, Dr. Kellogg had transformed the San, as it was affectionately known, from an Adventist boarding house specializing in Graham bread and water cures to the "Temple of Health" it had now become, a place celebrated from...