Interview with “Dr. Kellogg” in California
“Dr. Kellogg was present at the Portuguese speaking group that attends the Garden Grove SDA church on February 10th. Instead of preaching about the health traditions of the Adventist church and talking about prevention factors, a new method was designed. A “virtual” interview with “Dr. Kellogg was conducted: Dr. Dos Santos portrayed Dr. Kellogg and Paulo Pereira, MBA from Loma Linda University was the “reporter” who performed the interview. The referred time was the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th centuries.
The interview went through the health message, and talked about vegetarianism, exercise, the eight remedies, and so on. It was something very unique, but the audience enjoyed it. It was so intense that when some of the products from the Kellogg’s company were presented and talked about Dr. Kellogg’s brother, who started it, a lady who was so ‘into’ the interview asked “Dr. Kellogg” if his brother was still alive. That was very funny.
Dr. Dos Santos commented on the interview, “I believe we still need to promote this and tell our church about our health traditions. Some of our members have no idea about our past history, and worse, they do not know much about our health principles and the reasons behind their promotion.”
The Adventist health heritage was presented in a form that was relaxed and entertained. The main reason for this was explained when the situation of health and medicine of that time was described. There was no sanitation in the cities, no trash collection, potable water, or sewage systems. The pigs used to eat and clean the trash in the streets. The medical field was not better. Hospitals also did not have any sanitation and cleanness. Same doctors who would perform autopsies in the morning would do surgeries in the afternoon without gloves or hand-washing.
Medical treatments were terrible, they used strychnine, arsenic and mercury, which today are known poisonous substances. Going to a hospital was a last resort because death would be the most probable result. Going for a surgery would be a death sentence for sure. During this chaotic era there was a need for a reform, and that was exactly what Ellen White promoted under God’s inspiration. And the rest is history.
Companies such as Kellogg and Post have its origins around the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, where the first medical and health institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And that was the beginning of the Adventist food companies and hospitals that spread around the world.
The biggest miracle of all was that the principles of the Adventist health reform were able to improve the health of the population of that day and today. However, the diseases of that time were much different than the ones today, in the past they were more infectious diseases and now more lifestyle or chronic diseases.
And that and much more was what “Dr. Kellogg” talked about during the interview.
“Dr. Kellogg was present at the Portuguese speaking group that attends the Garden Grove SDA church on February 10th. Instead of preaching about the health traditions of the Adventist church and talking about prevention factors, a new method was designed. A “virtual” interview with “Dr. Kellogg was conducted: Dr. Dos Santos portrayed Dr. Kellogg and Paulo Pereira, MBA from Loma Linda University was the “reporter” who performed the interview. The referred time was the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th centuries.
The interview went through the health message, and talked about vegetarianism, exercise, the eight remedies, and so on. It was something very unique, but the audience enjoyed it. It was so intense that when some of the products from the Kellogg’s company were presented and talked about Dr. Kellogg’s brother, who started it, a lady who was so ‘into’ the interview asked “Dr. Kellogg” if his brother was still alive. That was very funny.
Dr. Dos Santos commented on the interview, “I believe we still need to promote this and tell our church about our health traditions. Some of our members have no idea about our past history, and worse, they do not know much about our health principles and the reasons behind their promotion.”
The Adventist health heritage was presented in a form that was relaxed and entertained. The main reason for this was explained when the situation of health and medicine of that time was described. There was no sanitation in the cities, no trash collection, potable water, or sewage systems. The pigs used to eat and clean the trash in the streets. The medical field was not better. Hospitals also did not have any sanitation and cleanness. Same doctors who would perform autopsies in the morning would do surgeries in the afternoon without gloves or hand-washing.
Medical treatments were terrible, they used strychnine, arsenic and mercury, which today are known poisonous substances. Going to a hospital was a last resort because death would be the most probable result. Going for a surgery would be a death sentence for sure. During this chaotic era there was a need for a reform, and that was exactly what Ellen White promoted under God’s inspiration. And the rest is history.
Companies such as Kellogg and Post have its origins around the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, where the first medical and health institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And that was the beginning of the Adventist food companies and hospitals that spread around the world.
The biggest miracle of all was that the principles of the Adventist health reform were able to improve the health of the population of that day and today. However, the diseases of that time were much different than the ones today, in the past they were more infectious diseases and now more lifestyle or chronic diseases.
And that and much more was what “Dr. Kellogg” talked about during the interview.