Robert Hugh Rose (January 24, 1876 – August 15, 1960) was an American dietitian, physician, and writer.
Biography Rose was born on January 24, 1876, in Carthage, Missouri.Martin, Charles Alexander. (1910). Alumnal Record: DePauw University. Greencastle, Indiana. p. 216 Rose graduated from DePauw University in 1898. He obtained his M.D. from College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York in 1902. He practiced medicine in New York City.
Rose was one of the first to advocate counting calories as a method to lose weight.Smith, Andrew F. (2017). Food in America: The Past, Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal, Volume 1: Food and the Environment. ABC-CLIO. p. 96. He proposed this in his book Eat Your Way to Health, published in 1916. In the second edition, he described the method as a "scientific system of weight control". Rose proposed the counting calories method for weight loss two years before Lulu Hunt Peters published Diet & Health: With Key to the Calories. He also argued that diet determined the size and shape of people.
Rose's book Eat Your Way to Health was positively reviewed in medical journals.
Rose died on August 15, 1960, aged 84, in New York City."Robert Hugh Rose". Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library of Columbia University. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
Selected publications
The Maintenance Diet for Adults (New York Medical Journal, 1915) Weight Increase (New York Medical Journal, 1915) Weight Reduction (New York Medical Journal, 1915) Eat Your Way To Health (1916, 1924) Weight, Diet and Efficiency (New York Medical Journal, 1920) Acid Gastritis (New York Medical Journal, 1921) How To Stay Young (1933, 1940)
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