Simple Choices, Powerful Changes

by Dean Ornish

On Simple Choices, Powerful Changes, bestselling author Dr. Dean Ornish takes you to the next level of how to dramatically improve your health and happiness by adding the power of intimacy to your healing program. He reviews his pioneering dietary, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations, and shares his breakthrough research that shows how true intimacy and connection with your family and community can profoundly influence your total health. Includes an exclusive 60-minute Q&A session with Dr. Ornish available nowhere else.

Genres: Health

2 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Dean Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a well-known advocate for using a plant-based diet and healthy lifestyle changes to treat and prevent heart disease.

Dean Ornish earned a B.A. in Humanities summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin, where he gave the baccalaureate address. He received his M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine, he was a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.