The Interesting Story of John Kellogg

Corn Flakes, Sexual Desires and Sanatorium’s

When looking back on history, it is important to remember that people may have good intentions but mixed with the wrong things — it can lead to bad outcomes. It is only through hindsight that we can learn. In saying this though, there is also a need to acknowledge the harmful views a person may have held.

John Harvey Kellogg was born on 26 February 1852 in Tyrone Michigan, he also had a younger brother, William who was born on 7 April 1860. Their parents, John Preston Kellogg and Anne Stanley were farmers.

The Underpinning Beliefs

They were deeply faithful and became members of the Millerites who thought that the second coming would happen on 22 October 1844. When that didn’t happen, it became known as The Great Disappointment, the group split the group, and the Kellogg's would follow a woman by the name of Ellen Harmon. She herself was said to have been given a message to travel the straight path right into heaven. They were following a set of unorganised beliefs until 1863 when they became the more organised Seventh-day Adventist Church.

To understand what came later in his life, it is important to understand what his beliefs were grounded in. A tradition of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was the understanding that the people had a moral obligation to live a healthy life. You had to take care of the physical form to guarantee you were serving God…