Church building. The 1997 volcanic eruption destroyed this building and 5 other of the 7 Adventist churches on the island while the remaining Adventist structures were used as temporary housing for evacuees. Adventists celebrated 100 years in Montserrat in 2015. Iraq In 2020, the Iraqi Post released a set of eight commemorative stamps to honor the Christian churches in the country, the set included a photograph of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. Health food Seventh-day Adventists invented corn flakes and launched the worldwide breakfast cereal business in 1894. Working in an Adventist Church owned hospital in Battle Creek Michigan, two brothers launched what would become Kelloggs, a business that was quickly copied by others, notably C. W. Post. The church directly owns or has owned many food factories manufacturing cereals, meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other health oriented products. The Seventh-day Adventist Church owned Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company continues to be a major producer of breakfast cereals and dairy alternatives like So Good (soy beverage) based in Australia and New Zealand with international sales and subsidiaries. Longevity research The Adventist dominated community of Loma Linda, California was identified as a "Blue Zone" when research showed that members of the church live on average as much as 10 years longer than the typical American. The extraordinary longevity of Seventh-day Adventists has been linked to a combination of factors. Adventists encourage abstinence from tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs, encourage regular exercise and a vegetarian plant based diet, and practice regular fellowship with like minded Christians and a strong faith in God. Longevity and health among Adventists has been scientifically studied since the 1950s with some of these studies collectively referred to as Adventist Health Studies. See also List of Seventh-day Adventists Seventh-day Adventist Church Christian pop culture Cultural depictions of Jesus References External links Christianity in popular culture History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church