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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
John Harvey Kellogg may be most famous for creating breakfast cereal—for which his more commercially minded brother actually deserves a lot of the credit—but his sanitarium was full of inventions that promised health and wellness. For instance, he was, the New York Times wrote in 1943, "inventor of the electric light bath."
Kellogg started running the Seventh Day Adventists' health-reform institute—what would become the Battle Creek Sanitarium—in 1876, at a time when scientists in the U.S. and Europe were investigating the effects of light on plants and animals. One of Kellogg's contemporaries, Niels Finsen, would win a Nobel Prize for his work on phototherapy, which, he showed, could be used to treat certain diseases (most notably, lupus).
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...gg-believed-light-could-cure-diabetes/382916/
Kellogg started running the Seventh Day Adventists' health-reform institute—what would become the Battle Creek Sanitarium—in 1876, at a time when scientists in the U.S. and Europe were investigating the effects of light on plants and animals. One of Kellogg's contemporaries, Niels Finsen, would win a Nobel Prize for his work on phototherapy, which, he showed, could be used to treat certain diseases (most notably, lupus).
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...gg-believed-light-could-cure-diabetes/382916/