John Harvey Kellogg Research Paper

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Kellogg’s story started with two brothers; Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg (famously called as ‘W.K Kellogg’) belong to Battle Creek, Michigan in United States. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was a practicing physician. Though Will Keith Kellogg lacked a formal education beyond the sixth grade, he was known for his intelligence and inventiveness. They belong to the Seventh Day Adventists Church who preached of having good health through good vegetarian diet and clean living. During 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the superintendent at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where Will Keith Kellogg worked as a book-keeper. The Kellogg brothers experimented with different types of grains and breads to create a much healthier diet for

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