Newsman: The New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants New Yorkers get healthier and he is pushing a new multi-million dollar campaign.
“New York City will not continue to feed the health care crisis,” Mayor Adams said during the announcement of the campaign on Monday,
Mayor Adams’s new campaign is being dubbed ‘lifestyle medicine,’ a kind of holistic approach to diet, exercise, medical care and human interaction. He pushed the campaign using himself as exhibit A.
He has also pushed for plant-based options in the city schools and at hospitals. Like at Bellevue, where plant-based patient meals are now the default at all city-run hospitals. Now, there’s a new tool — free training in lifestyle medicine for 200,000 health and medical practitioners from public and private hospitals.
“Giving every New York City health professional the opportunity to receive lifestyle medicine training at New York City’s favorite word ‘free,’ no cost,” Adams said.
It’s made possible through a $44 million investment by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
“This investment can strengthen the health of New Yorkers and hopefully inspire other cities and communities to follow suit,” said Dr. Cate Collings of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Mayor Adams’s has long been an advocate of healthy eating. He not only shed more than 30 pounds, but he also reversed his type 2 diabetes with a plant-based diet and working out.
It is often that poorer communities have less access to healthy food options and higher rates of diabetes and chronic issues. Experts says,If more providers have more knowledge about lifestyle medicine, more people can benefit and even live longer.
