New York City is partnering with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to train health care workers on nutrition for their patients.
The city is having the American College of Lifestyle Medicine train more than 200 thousand doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in New York City. They will learn about nutrition and lifestyle medicine to combat chronic diseases. President of the College Doctor Cate Collings says this can change the trajectory of quality of life and healthcare costs.
“It gives physicians and other health care providers the tools to really help patients, not only to tell them eat a healthier diet but what does that really mean.”
Mayor Eric Adams himself says he switched to a plant based diet which helped restore his eyesight and put his diabetes into remission.