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See also:SYLVESTER See also:GRAHAM (1794-1851)
, See also:American dietarian, was See also:born in Suffield, See also:Connecticut, in 1794
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He studied at See also:Amherst See also:College, and was ordained to the Presbyterian See also:ministry in 1826, but he seems to have preached but little
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He became an ardent See also:advocate of See also:temperance reform and of See also:vegetarianism, having persuaded himself that a flesh See also:diet was the cause of abnormal cravings
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His last years were spent in retirement and he died at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:September 1851
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His name is now remembered because of his advocacy of unbolted (See also:Graham) See also:flour, and as the originator of " Graham See also:bread." But his reform was much broader than this
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He urged, primarily, physiological See also:education, and in his See also:Science of Human See also:Life (1836; republished, with See also:biographical memoir, 1858) furnished an exhaustive See also:text-See also:book on the subject
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He had carefully planned a See also:complete regimen including many details besides a strict diet
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A Temperance (or Graham) Boarding See also:House was opened in New See also:York See also:City about 1832 by Mrs Asenath See also:Nicholson, who published Nature's Own Book (2nd ed., 1835) giving Graham's rules for boarders; and in See also:Boston a Graham House was opened in 1837 at 23 Brattle See also:Street
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There were many Grahamites at See also:Brook See also:Farm, and the American Physiological Society published in Boston in 1837 and 1838 a weekly called The Graham See also:Journal of See also:Health and See also:Longevity, designed to illustrate by facts and sustain by See also:reason and principles the science of human life as taught by See also:Sylvester Graham, edited by See also:David See also: |
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