Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It audiobook runs 6.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Karen Saltus (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.9 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 4,141 Fitness, Diet & Nutrition audiobooks in our catalog.
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Karen Saltus narrates 111 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 730 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Fitness, Diet & Nutrition shelf
438 Fitness, Diet & Nutrition audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It is an audiobook by Harriet Brown: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Karen Saltus, released June 1, 2015, on the Fitness, Diet & Nutrition shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Karen Saltus
- Released
- June 1, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
- ISBN
- 9781469093529
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How long is the Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It audiobook?
Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
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Who narrates Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It?
Body Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It is narrated by Karen Saltus.