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may be glad to hear about.
“I fi nd this Soy Acidophilus Milk extremely useful
because of its rejuvenating effects. I am in my 86th year and
am as hard at work as ever.
“If Mr. Ford wishes to try the Soy Acidophilus Milk, I
shall be glad to order a case sent to him. We send three cases
to the quintuplets every week. It keeps them free from bowel
trouble which, because of the liver Dr. Dafoe insists on
giving them, comes back as soon as they stop the use of the
Soy Acidophilus Milk... It cured them of bowel trouble when
they were four months old and they have been taking it ever
since in gradually increasing quantities. They began with a
teaspoonful at each feeding. Each one is now taking a pint a
day.”
130. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1937. Re: The Hay diet, and soy
acidophilus milk. Letter to Admiral R.E. Byrd, 9 Brimmer
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, May 16. 6 p. Typed, without
signature (carbon copy).
• Summary: “You inquire with reference to the Hay diet
and whether the soy acidophilus milk is a carbohydrate and
whether it contains protein.” The philosophy on which the
Hay diet rests “that carbohydrates and proteins should not be
eaten together is entirely unscientifi c...” A detailed analysis
of this fallacy follows. The originator of this regimen was not
Dr. Hay, but “a Dr. Tilden of Denver [Colorado] many years
ago [20 years before Hay]. He was an advertising doctor and
employed the late Elbert Hubbard, then a young reporter, as
a publicity agent to create business.”
“I hope that you are adhering closely to the biologic
way and that you are prospering as a result. It is evident that
your vital margin has become greatly reduced.” A table (p.
4) compares the composition of soy acidophilus milk, cow’s
milk, and human milk. Soy acidophilus milk “has a little less
carbohydrate that human milk, but it resembles human milk
more closely than cow’s milk and contains lactic acid, which
of course is found in buttermilk but not in mother’s milk or
ordinary sweet dairy milk.”
Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, author of the book titled
“The Aristocracy of Health,” has left a legacy to Battle
Creek College. “I have set apart one hundred numbers to be
assigned to persons of distinction who are nationally and
internationally known as leaders in various lines of activity
for the promotion of human welfare. I should like very much
to put your name down as one of the fi rst ten. I should be
glad if you would nominate some prominent person who
you know to be eligible to be one of the initial one hundred.
There is no particular prestige connected with this initial
enrollment, but I entertain the hope that Mrs. Henderson’s
dream that the Aristocracy of Health might prove to be the
nucleus of a group of health minded individuals which might
grow in time to be the beginning of a new and better human
race through biologic living and eugenics may be realized...”
“P.S. It makes me very happy to know that my most
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distinguished patients, Admiral Byrd and the quintuplets, are
profi ting by keeping the interior department in fi ne condition
by the use of soy acidophilus milk.” Address: En route to
Miami Springs, Florida.
131. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1937. Re: Sending soy
acidophilus milk to Dale Carnegie. Letter to Food Company,
Battle Creek, Michigan, June 17. 1 p. Typed, without
signature (carbon copy).
• Summary: “Please send half a dozen bottles of soy
acidophilus milk together with samples of our foods we
send to doctors to Dale Carnegie, 27 Wendover Road, Forest
Hills, New York, complimentary.” Address: Battle Creek,
Michigan.
132. Radcliffe, Jack B. 1937. Soybean: The perfect protein.
Nature’s Path (New York City). June. p. 210.
• Summary: “Packed into the tiny soya bean is a wealth
of nutrition; minerals, tiny vitamins, easily assimilated
carbohydrates, and the greatest hoard of proteins that any
food in the vegetable kingdom contains.” Just imagine. “A
vegetable product equal to most, and superior to some animal
products in proteins, the body building element in food,
without which there would be no life.”
Unlike meat and fi sh, the soybean is one of those rare
foods that alkalinize the body. Milk and butter made from
soybeans are better than their dairy counterparts. Its oil is
equal to the best grade of olive oil. It is the world’s leading
source of lecithin, and the source of protein-rich soy fl our,
soy sauce, roasted soybeans, vegetables, cheese, etc. Dr.
Kellogg is making increasing use of “soy acidophilus” [a
type of liquid fermented soymilk].
133. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1937. Re: The soybean is an
excellent food. Soy products made by Battle Creek Food
Company. Letter to Mr. Richard Haughton, Valley Mill
Farm, Great Valley Mills, Paoli, Pennsylvania, Aug. 26. 3 p.
Typed, with signature on letterhead.
• Summary: Mr. Haughton wrote Dr. Kellogg on Aug. 26
that “One of your patients at Battle Creek has advised me
that we should look into Soy Bean as a food.” It is said to be
helpful for intestinal disorders.
Dr. Kellogg replies: “You have been correctly informed.
The soybean is an exceedingly useful food and ought to
be widely used. It is on the whole, I believe, the most
remarkable and most useful of all food products...
“If you will address a letter to W.J. Morse, Bureau of
Plant Introduction [sic, Plant Industry], U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington D.C., you will obtain a large
amount of literature about the soy bean which you will fi nd
very interesting.
“The Battle Creek Food Company makes a number of
products from the soy bean, among which are soy gluten
biscuit, which consists of equal parts of soy fl our and wheat