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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 but dodges questions on own diet 
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