John Harvey Kellogg
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John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the health reforms advocated by the Battle Creek Progressive Friends movement and the eugenics policies espoused b
Kellogg, c. 1915
Kellogg in 1881, aged about 29
Battle Creek Medical Surgical Sanitarium before 1902
Breathing exercises at Battle Creek Sanitarium (c. 1900)
Race Betterment Foundation
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The Race Betterment Foundation was a eugenics and racial hygiene organization founded in 1914 at Battle Creek, Michigan by John Harvey Kellogg due to his concerns about what he perceived as "race dege
John Harvey Kellogg
…and cornflakes. Although cornflakes were not new, they had never before been presented as a breakfast food [...] Kellogg was [also] a cofounder of the Race Betterment Foundation, an organization that promoted eugenics and racial segregation." An early proponent of the germ theory of disease, Kellogg was well ahead of his time…
Irving Fisher
Charles Benedict Davenport
Good Health, January 1894 cover