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 In 1900 John Harvey Kellogg wrote The Living Temple, his attempt to correlate physiology and health care with St. Paul’s admonission, “Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?” Several Adventist leaders, including Ellen White, disapproved of the book’s theology. There were also disagreements concerning the health mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Kellogg advocated one large, world-famous center while Ellen White urged several smaller centers to spread the health message farther. By 1907, after much arguing and negotiation, Kellogg removed the Battle Creek property from Seventh-day Adventist ownership and was cut off from the church.

Although cornflakes were not new, they had never before been presented as a breakfast food. Kellogg was the founder and first president (1923–26) of Battle Creek College, and he opened the Miami-Battle Creek Sanitarium at Miami Springs, Fla., in 1931. He also wrote many medical books. Kellogg died on Dec. 14, 1943, in Battle Creek, Mich.