Health audiobooks

The Flavor Point Diet - Abridged

By: David Katz, M.D., MPH

Narrated by: David Katz, M.D., MPH

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if there were a weight-loss diet that allowed you to eat your favorite foods and be completely satisfied, without ever counting calories or restricting food groups again? What if this diet was supported by scientific research from the prestigious Yale Prevention Research Center and was clinically proven to help you shed excess pounds... Read more

French Women Don't Get Fat - Abridged

By: Mireille Guiliano

Narrated by: Mireille Guiliano

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.

French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how... Read more

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives - Abridged

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D., David Simon, M.D. & Vicky ...

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources: the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, with its emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and the latest Western... Read more

Perfect Balance - Abridged

By: Robert A. Greene, M.D. & Leah Feldon

Narrated by: Robert A. Greene, M.D.

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In this breakthrough book, world-renowned hormone specialist Dr. Robert Greene explores the connection between two of the least understood—and yet most important—physiological factors: hormones and the brain. In Perfect Balance, Dr. Greene presents a comprehensive program for reaching hormonal balance, including how to:

•craft a personalized... Read more

The Long Goodbye - Abridged

By: Patti Davis

Narrated by: Patti Davis

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes... Read more

The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet - Abridged

By: Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS

Narrated by: Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You know how it is. That special event just around the corner and you can’t fit into your designer jeans. You need a fool-proof, emergency weight-loss method that really works and works fast. So how do you safely and quickly lose those extra pounds?

Once again, renowned health pioneer and bestselling author Ann Louise Gittleman has a quick,... Read more

The 3-Day Solution Plan - Abridged

By: Laurel Mellin

Narrated by: Laurel Mellin

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Solution to Dieting!

Almost everyone who wants to lose weight makes a painful discovery: diets don’t work. After following the rules and wrestling with the temptations, nearly all dieters regain what they have lost–and then some. What’s worse, the anger and frustration of constant dieting just make us want to eat more! If only we could turn... Read more

Suzanne Somers' Slim and Sexy Forever - Abridged

By: Suzanne Somers

Narrated by: Suzanne Somers

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who says you can’t sizzle in the second half of life?

At last, a solution! In Slim and Sexy Forever, Suzanne Somers outlines a program specifically designed to address the needs of women and men who want to lose weight and replace the lust for life that naturally wanes with age. In this “baby boomer’s recipe for the fountain of youth,”... Read more

Making a Good Brain Great - Abridged

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do—learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days!

You probably run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep your body in great shape; you put on sunscreen and lotions... Read more

Pour en finir avec les régimes - Abridged

By: Philip McGraw

Narrated by: Jean Leclerc

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"J'ai l'intention ici de vous confronter à vous-même et au problème de votre poids. Et je veux le faire d'une manière que vous n'avez jamais connue à ce jour. Nous savons tous que la chaîne ininterrompue de régimes que vous avez suivis jusqu'ici n'a servi à rien d'autre qu'à vous faire prendre davantage de poids. Pour en finir avec les régimes !... Read more

Live Strong - Abridged

By: The Lance Armstrong Foundation

Narrated by: Alison Fraser & Richard M. Davidson

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Survivors from all walks of life talk about what “living strong” in the face of cancer means to them.

Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight... Read more

The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet - Abridged

By: Nicholas Perricone, MD

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Perricone– respected physician, award-winning research scientist, and trusted expert on health and beauty–comes the biggest breakthrough in weight loss since Atkins.

Millions of women and men have restored youthful radiance, smoothness, and suppleness to their skin through Dr. Nicholas... Read more

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat - Abridged

By: Naomi Moriyama & William Doyle

Narrated by: Naomi Moriyama

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary secret?

Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own high-energy,... Read more

The Spectrum - Abridged

By: Dean Ornish, M.D.

Narrated by: Dean Ornish, M.D. & Anne Ornish

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Ornish Diet has been named the “#1 Best Heart-Healthy Diet” by U.S. News & World Report for seven consecutive years!

From the author of the landmark bestseller Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease comes an empowering new program that teaches you how to lower high blood pressure, lose weight, lower your cholesterol, or... Read more

The South Beach Heart Program - Abridged

By: Arthur S. Agatston, M.D.

Narrated by: Arthur S. Agatston, M.D.

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This year more than 1 million Americans will have a heart attack or stroke, making heart disease the leading cause of death in men and women in this country. But thanks to his aggressive prevention approach to treating heart disease, renowned cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, creator of the Agatston Score for measuring coronary calcium, rarely... Read more

Saving Graces - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more

Mindless Eating - Abridged

By: Brian Wansink, PhD

Narrated by: Brian Wansink, PhD

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.

• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry... Read more

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, New Edition, Updated and Expanded - Abridged

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now expanded and updated: The audiobook in which one of America's most brilliant and respected doctors gives us his famous program for improving and maintaining health--already the program of choice for hundreds of thousands.
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine on a... Read more

French Women for All Seasons - Abridged

By: Mireille Guiliano

Narrated by: Mireille Guiliano

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

BONUS FEATURE: Select recipes included on enhanced CD!

For the legions of fans who asked for seconds after devouring French Women Don’t Get Fat, a charming and practical guide to adding some joie to your vie and to your table, every day of the year.

By letter, by email and in person, readers of Mireille Guiliano’s phenomenal bestseller French... Read more

Eating Well for Optimum Health - Abridged

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of our most trusted authorities on health and alternative health care, a comprehensive and reassuring audio about food, diet, and nutrition.

Building on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of his enormous bestseller Spontaneous Healing and presenting the kind of practical information that informed his 8 Weeks to Optimum... Read more

The Not So Big Life - Abridged

By: Sarah Susanka

Narrated by: Sarah Susanka

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Have you ever found yourself asking, “Is this all there is to life?” Or wondering if this bigger life you have created is actually a better life? And do you wonder how it all got so out of control?

In her groundbreaking bestseller The Not So Big House, architect Sarah Susanka showed us a new way to inhabit our houses by creating homes that were... Read more

The Art of Aging - Abridged

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his landmark work How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a humanist’s understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has... Read more

How We Die - Abridged

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the state of health care and... Read more

The 12 Second Sequence - Abridged

By: Jorge Cruise

Narrated by: Jorge Cruise

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 12-Second Sequence™ is fitness superstar Jorge Cruise’s newest revolutionary method of resistance training that burns fat, shrinks your waistline, and gets you into the best shape of your life–and all it takes is two twenty-minute workouts each week. Based on the latest groundbreaking research in exercise physiology, the 12-Second Sequence™... Read more