Vintage 1920s Healthful Living Battle Creek Kellogg p64

Vintage 1920s Healthful Living Fundamental Facts about Food and feeding

Battle Creek Food Company Battle Creek Michigan

Road to Wellville movie inspiration (1994)

Battle Creek Sanitarium (health spa 1866 to 1930)

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I found a great batch of advertising/recipe items at a new local estate sales.  These little free booklets are from the 1920s thru 1950s and are a little slice of yesterday.  Definitely we don't eat like this today!

This is a  the very best of the whole batch and the most quirky one as well.  The Battle Creek Sanitarium published this guide in the 1920s do introduce the public to the fundamental principles of health eating.

In 1866 John Harvey Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium which was a health spa for the wealthy.  Dr. Kellogg had very definite ideas about health and eating whole grain foods, not in itself bad at all.  He also believed in "cleaning out" if you know what I mean, devoting whole floors of the building to areas for the process.

Very serious stuff.  The sanitarium was in business from 1866 to 1930 when it went bankrups (wealthy could no longer afford to vacation there), and it was sold to the US Army for a hospital. 

Of course leave it to Hollywood to make fun of Dr. Kellogg.  In 1994 a movie called The Road to Wellville was released with Mathew Broderick, and Anthony Hopkins as the doctor.  A young Victorian couple take the cure at the sanitarium with its endless water tortures enemas, etc.  The young women, Bridget Fonda, tells the institute that her husband is an addict, so all the treatments concentrate on him while she spends time riding a bike and having fun.  The real Dr. Kellogg actually did write a book called The Road to Wellness.

So this booklet was published by the institute sometime in 1920s, undated but that is what I can make out in the pictures/photos.  Very odd views on some things, sensible in other ways.  Covers food, changing diet, how we digest food, reducing weight, intestinal flora (see I told you), exercise for good health, and of course a list of Kellogg's products and prices.

Whole chapter on your insides, that tells you where his mind was at!  The answer to diseases is strange from diabetes to gall bladder disease.  A good diet cures anything apparently.

So this is a joy, lots of unusual advice, lots of products no longer made but probably missed; lacto-dextrin, laxa, par-lax, purified agar, parafin oil, psylla, paramels,  etc.

Condition:   good for its age (80+ years). Some smudging on covers and pages.  Wear to spine and corners.  Back cover and about 5 pages have what looks like coffee damage on lower part.  Some folds to cover edges. Some tearing and nicking along spline around of staples.  Rather rare, so it is your chance to grab this copy, despite the slight damage from coffee.

Excellent booklet to add to your collection.  

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