Hutchinson promoted the consumption of red meat and white bread and was strongly opposed to the ideas of vegetarianism.

He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1880, and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later.

Hutchinson supported a form of eugenics that espoused the importance of animal protein in the human diet.

"[2] Hutchinson was highly critical of vegetarianism and the low-protein diet ideas of John Harvey Kellogg and Russell Henry Chittenden.

He argued against fashion and trends in which young women wanted to be thin and wrote that "the long-for slender and boyish figure is becoming a menace.

For example, Kellogg's Good Health journal described Hutchinson as a "beef drunkard and propagandist of the most pronounced type.