Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: Chronic disease in the African American community.
In July of 2021, he won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, pledging to create positive change in the lives of all New Yorkers..
In November of 2017, he was reelected for a second term to represent Brooklyn as borough president.
Features more than 50 recipes from celebrities and health experts, including Paul McCartney, Queen Afua, Jenné Claiborne, Bryant Jennings, Charity Morgan, Moby, and more! The journey to good health begins in the kitchen-not the hospital bed! About author(s): For the past three decades, Eric Adams has served the residents of Brooklyn as borough president, state senator, police officer, and coalition builder.
In the process he explores the origins of soul food-a cuisine deeply important to the Black community, but also one rooted in the horrors of slavery-and how it can be reimagined with Healthy alternatives.
With this book, he shows readers how to avoid processed foods, cut down on salt, get more fiber, and substitute beef, chicken, pork, and dairy with delicious Plant-Based alternatives.
Armed with the hard science and real-life stories of those who have transformed their bodies by changing their diet, Adams shares the key steps for a healthy, active life.
Now he is on a mission to revolutionize the health of not just the borough of Brooklyn, but of African Americans across the country.
Within three months of adopting a Plant-Based diet, he lost 35 pounds, lowered his cholesterol by 30 points, restored his vision, and reversed his diabetes.
There was a better option besides medication and shots of insulin: food.
But Adams was not ready to become a statistic.
His diet followed him from the squad car to the state senate, and then to Brooklyn Borough Hall, where it finally caught up with him.
Fast food was easy, cheap, and comfortable.
Like so many Americans with stressful jobs, the last thing he wanted to think about was eating healthfully.
A police officer for more than two decades, Adams was a connoisseur of the fast-food dollar menu.
After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the nearly 5 million Black people living with diabetes-and, according to his doctor, he would have it for the rest of his life.
African Americans are heavier and sicker than any Other group in the U.
S., with nearly half of all Black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: Chronic disease in the African American community
