Some people will undoubtedly argue that living to an advanced age means signing up for a slow agony if you must become a vegan or endure routine yogurt enemas to do it. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg famously disagreed. The co-inventor of Corn Flakes and a health nut a hundred years before Whole Foods sold its first kumquat, Kellogg made it to 91 preaching a steadfast diet of nuts and twigs and a watery lifestyle of sitz baths and regular colon cleansing. Victorian-era visitors to the good doctor’s enormous sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, were presented with his lengthy list of items to avoid, including meat, seafood, eggs, milk, coffee, tea, mustard, vinegar, pepper, chocolate, tobacco, alcohol, iced drinks, “complicated meals,” stress, worry, and heavy clothing. READ MORE ››
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