“I want people to say, ‘What could I eat in my bodega right now?’” Mayor Adams said. “These black-eyed peas are right in your local bodega. The carrots in your local bodega. The bananas, the apples in your local bodega. The berries in your local bodega.”
Mayor Eric Adams leads a plant-based cooking demo at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, February 7th, 2022.Mayor Eric Adams leads a plant-based cooking demo at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, February 7th, 2022.,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams says his administration will be expanding a chronic disease management program that focuses on diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors rather than medication.
The Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program, piloted at Bellevue starting in 2019, will open up clinics in five new Health and Hospitals locations across the city this year, officialsduring a press conference, prior to a mayoral vegan chili cooking demonstration on Monday. In addition to the original Bellevue location, patients will be able to enroll at Health and Hospitals Jacobi and Lincoln in the Bronx, the Brooklyn sites of Woodhull and Kings County, Elmhurst in Queens and Gotham Health Vanderbilt in Staten Island.
More than 850 New York City residents have referred themselves for the Bellevue pilot program, according to the mayor’s office. The pilot had a $400,000 price tag, and Adams said the Office of Management and Budget is “still figuring out” the cost of the expanded plan. “New York is going to change the conversation about using food not to feed healthcare crises, but to stop the crises,” Adams said, adding that he credits his diet, described as a “The program is open to adult Health and Hospitals patients living with type II diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and health problems linked to obesity, city officials said.
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