Type 2 Diabetes: The Adrenal Gland Disease: The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes and a Nutrition... by Marcia Roper

Marcia Ruth Roper works as a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator with a degree from Loma Linda University. Marcia is very proud of her two grown children and likes writing for newsletters and learning biochemistry in her free time. She has held numerous classes and facilitated interactive groups. Marcia has also lectured in places such as Lame Deer Montana, Palm Springs, Indian Wells California, San Diego and Big Bear California. She was previously the diabetes program director and dietitian at a corporation that provides health care to 10 Indian tribe. Having several family members with type 2 diabetes she has been driven to find the answers to what she considers an unnecessary condition. She has developed a nutrition program that has reversed diabetes in patients who follow the recommendations. She continues to work with Native Americans and it is the education she has received from these people, her research and clinical findings that she would like to pass along to you.

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This book takes a somewhat unconventional approach to diabetes management based on the author's experience working with diabetes patients. She is somewhat like the famous Dr. Bernstein in that she rightly maligns the food pyramid given to diabetics that overfeeds them carbs. Instead the author says that vegetables should be the base of the pyramid, encourages low carbohydrate consumption, and says some protein should be eaten at every meal. Besides the common sense advice on exercise, the only really unique facet of this book is that the author says that diabetics should never consume caffeine since she believes that diabetes is an adrenal gland disease and that caffeine throws the adrenals into chaos. She has some interesting data to back up her claims, but that is about it on the content of the book. It definitely is not worth any more than twenty dollars. If you can find it for less than that it might be worth it. I give this book four stars on content, one star on overpricing, and I rounded down to two stars based on the fact that the book is not just overpriced, it is very overpriced.