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John Harvey Kellogg was born in Tyrone, Michigan, USA. He was an American physician, nutritionist, inventor, health activist and businessman. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated with a medical degree from New York University in 1875. He also helped to establish the American Medical Missionary College. He was a major leader in progressive health reform, particularly in the second phase of the Clean living movement. His approach to "biologic living" combined scientific knowledge with adventist beliefs, promoting health reform, temperance and sexual abstinence. He is best known today for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg. In 1937, he received an honorary degree in Doctor of Public Service from Oglethorpe University. He wrote several books include: Plain Facts for Old and Young, First book in physiology and hygiene, Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects, Ladies' guide in health and disease, Rational Hydrotherapy, The Living Temple, Light Therapeutics, Autointoxication or Intestinal Toxemia, Tobaccoism, New Dietetics, and The art of massage. He married Ella Eaton Kellogg in 1879.