Plain Facts for Old and Young: Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life

by John Harvey Kellogg

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644 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, and businessman. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. The sanitarium was founded by members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and a high-class hotel. Kellogg treated both the rich and famous and the poor who could not go to other hospitals.

(wikipedia)

Reviews

[Jules · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although another reviewer calls this book inaccurate, I would object and say that it's an artifact of its time. Presented by the cereal king himself, this is an interesting, if incredibly out of date, step in the direction of the "my body" books. It offers a glimpse not only into the time period but into the mind of a man who is arguably a cultural hero, showing a little bit of the insanity rumbling in his brain.

[Roberto Bovina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mental unchastity nad uncleanness, diet vs chastity, continence. Results of secret vice: nocturnal emissions, general debility, insanity, nervous diseases. Treatment of self-abuse: diet, mental and moral treatment, exercise.

[Jude Brigley]

A complete load of tosh. Dated and offensive.