Surgeon, food reformer; born in Tyrone Township, John Kellogg took a course in a physiotherapeutic school. He rejected this approach and took regular medical training, finishing at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City) but with a thesis claiming that disease is the body’s way of defending itself.He had become editor of the Adventist monthly, Health Reformer (which he renamed Good Health in 1879), and on returning to Battle Creek, he became superintendent of the Western Health Reform Institute, which Sister Ellen Harmon White had already established to promote ideas about health much like Kellogg’s.He renamed it the Battle Creek Sanatorium and began to apply his theories about biologic living, or the Battle Creek idea, which stressed the role of natural medicate such as a vegetarian diet and a Spartan…