Natural Health was born out of Food Faddism

My history of the development of natural health, now has a definite end
point in sight.

Food Faddism in America that took place during the turn of the 20th
century is the immediate birth place of natural health, without a
doubt.

John Harvey Kellogg, MD with his "biological living" at the Battle
Creek Sanitarium and his emphasis on diet is probably the first person
that should be clearly associated with natural health. Kellogg also
promoted physical exercise. Concern with physical culture was likewise
developing around this time period. The concern with eating wholesome
food continued to develop into an interest in vitamins around the World
War I period.

Rather than being associated with a physician-patent relationship like
naturopathy, natural hygiene, and homeopathy; natural health had a
distinctive commercial retail connection to the commercial sale of
health foods products (such as, corn flakes) and vitamin supplements.

Of course, nature health since its birth has had a lot of time to
develop and grow into something beyond food faddism. But, natural
health is now probably more closely associated with taking vitamin
supplements than it is with eating health foods products.

Now, it only a matter of finding the time to put it down in writing.
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