The comments also speak to the continued stigma Americans have for an integral piece of holistic health care.

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That realization, and a desire to create a bridge to humane and holistic health care, led to her founding the Urban Zen Foundation.

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To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.

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In those places, practitioners of traditional health systems are largely available and provide easily accessible, culturally acceptable, low cost and largely holistic care to ill people.

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