| The History of Organic Supplements | | | | mass gullibility led the Food and Drugs Administration |
| The health food business began more than a century | | | | (FDA) in 1906 to restrict the use of health claims on |
| ago with names like Sylvester Graham and John H. | | | | foods and drugs. |
| Kellogg. Graham introduced the famous Graham | | | | Health magazines began to be published promoting |
| crackers in 1830 and John H. Kelloggs with his brother | | | | vitamins, food preparation and exercise creating health |
| introduced the famous cornflakes cereal. By 1899 the | | | | awareness and warning people of the dangers of |
| Kelloggs brothers were the first to become millionaires | | | | pollution. During World War II the first book on organic |
| of the newly born âfad foodâ industry. | | | | food, Organic Gardening and Farming, was released |
| During the early 1900s scientists began quantifying | | | | and became an immediate bestseller. In the late 1980s |
| food groups. Dubious elixirs claiming all kinds of | | | | companies like Amway, NeoLife, and Shaklee |
| miracles began to be sold from bandwagons that | | | | distributed costly vitamins from door to door grossing a |
| traveled from town to town. Fraudulent claims and | | | | total of $700 million selling health supplements. |