To be fair, the companies have gone far from their roots, I don't agree with even the roots of this nutritiional philosophy, but they really didn't see Sugar Crisp or Frankenberry as the future in those days. Sylvester Graham was said to have hoped that his cracker would help put an end to masturbation, instead it wound up in S'mores and as the crust for cheesecake.

Actual Seventh day Adventists who adhere to some degree of vegetarianism do seem to do all right, studies on them are used by advocates of a vegetarian diet.