Dietary Timeline

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1870

Battle Creek Sanitarium set up by Ellen White and her husband. In 1876 John Harvey Kellogg took up the position of Medical Director. Under Kellogg's direction the clients, in addition to being offered diet-based health regimes, were subjected to enemas, bed rest, hydrotherapy and exercise.