Topic: Health

Buddhist Monk, Namchak Khenpo, comes to Sun Valley to teach the Medicine Buddha and impart some of his wisdom. In this day in age, surrounded by pollution and new types of disease, the Medicine Buddha is welcome with open arms..

An MNN Piece that features footage and interviews from the Walk Now For Autism charity/awareness walk. Interviewees include founder of Autism Speaks, Bob Wright and other key autism advocates in the Nantucket community.

Christine Ansbacher, self proclaimed wine diva, explains the health benefits of red wine (and she says to use a decanter to "limber that redhead up.")

Lynda Resnick, owner of Fiji Water, POM Wonderful and Everybody's Nuts, talks about her contribution to the Aspen Institute during the Aspen Ideas Festival and the role of the citizen journalist in media.

At her home in the Hamptons, fashion designer Donna Karan discusses The Urban Zen Initiative she started "to find a balance between the calm and the chaos." They had a seminar which brought together traditional and alternative medicines. Kris Carr, writer director and producer of the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer, told Donna she was the patient she was talking about because she was combining traditional and alternative medicines in her own cancer treatment.

Nora Volkow speaks about mood disorders, addiction, and depression at Aspen Institutes's first Aspen Health Forum.

Cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., is arguably Miami’s most famous resident. The native New Yorker and third-generation doctor is the author of The South Beach Diet. We talked to him about eating, exercising and living on South Beach and how it’s all changed in the past 30 years.

Visit SouthBeachDiet.com for more information about Dr. Agatston.