Rose was born on January 24, 1876, in Carthage, Missouri.[1] Rose graduated from DePauw University in 1898. He obtained his M.D. from College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York in 1902.[1] He practiced medicine in New York City.[1]
Rose was one of the first to advocate counting calories as a method to lose weight.[2] 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.[2] He also argued that diet determined the size and shape of people.[3]
Rose's book Eat Your Way to Health was positively reviewed in medical journals.[4][5][6][7]
Rose died on August 15, 1960, aged 84, in New York City.[8]
