BY BEN BRACHFELD
Mayor Eric Adams announced
Monday the expansion
of “lifestyle medicine”
services to six locations in the
city’s public hospital network,
including two in Brooklyn.
The new lifestyle medicine
“clinics” will help people with
chronic illnesses, like type 2
diabetes, heart disease, and
hypertension, make healthy
changes to their lifestyle, including
plant-based diets, exercise,
increasing sleep, and
reducing stress, the mayor
said Monday.
Hizzoner further maintained
that these lifestyle
changes can prevent people
from suffering chronic illness,
can improve health outcomes
for those suffering from them,
and in some cases, such as his
own, even reverse a diagnosis.
“This is the most comprehensive
expansion of lifestyle
medicine in the nation,” the
mayor said at a Feb. 7 press
conference at Kings County
Hospital in Flatbush, one of
the sites the program is expanding
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to. “New York is going
to change the conversation
about using food not to feed
healthcare crises, but to stop
the crises and in some cases,
like my case, to reverse some
of the chronic diseases that
historically we said was not
possible.”
The fi rst lifestyle medicine
clinic was started at Bellevue
Hospital in Manhattan in
2019, and was promoted at the
time by then-Brooklyn Borough
President Adams. The
program will also expand to
Woodhull Hospital in Bedford-
Stuyvesant, Jacobi and Lincoln
Hospitals in the Bronx,
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens,
and Gotham Health Vanderbilt
in Staten Island.
More than 40 percent of
adults in New York State suffer
from a chronic disease,
according to the state Health
Department, and those with
such illnesses account for 23
percent of hospitalizations
and 60 percent of deaths in
the state. Some like Alzheimers,
asthma, and cancer are incurable
and mostly not based
on lifestyle choices, but others
like hypertension, heart
disease, type 2 diabetes, and
smoking-related illnesses are
largely caused by unhealthy
habit-forming activities.
Those diseases “hijack” the
lives of its victims and their
families, Adams said.
“A chronic disease does
not only impact the individual
who has the chronic disease —
it impacts the entire family,”
the mayor said. “A chronic
disease hijacks your life and it
hijacks the life of your entire
family. And that is why this is
a signifi cant moment on what
we are doing.”
The issue is personal
for Adams: for years he has
claimed that adopting a plantbased
Mayor Adams cooks a vegan chili at Kings County Hospital on Feb. 7.
Photo by Ben Brachfeld
diet cured him of type 2
diabetes and complications including
blindness. “If I would
have followed the path I was
given, I would not be standing
here,” he said. “I was going
blind.”
Adams has made his
healthy diet a central part of
his political persona, even
writing a plant-based cookbook,
“Healthy at Last: A
Plant-Based Approach to Preventing
and Reversing Diabetes
and Other Chronic Illnesses,”
in which he shared
50 recipes he says have helped
him become the healthy man
he is today, and promoted his
mission to make healthy food
as freely available as junk in
low-income communities and
communities of color.
Adams said that he would
soon be undertaking a program
to feed himself a healthy,
balanced, plant-based diet on
a budget of $10 per day, and on
Monday led a cooking demonstration
where he made his
vegan chili recipe that he says
costs $9 to feed a family of four
to dissuade the myth that his
diet is too expensive
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