NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Bill Clinton Tweeted support for ambiguously vegan Mayor Eric Adams’ push for increased accessibility to plant-based diets in NYC.
“Making a plant-based diet more accessible and achievable will not only help reduce our shared healthcare costs, but help more people feel better in their daily lives,” said the former president in a Tweet Monday.
“I can speak from personal experience! Well done,” added Clinton, who has been a vocal supporter of plant-based diets for years.
In a 2011 interview with CNN, Clinton described how changing his diet helped him improve his health.
His cholesterol was too high, he was overweight and he had to undergo a quadruple bypass surgery in 2004.
"I was lucky I did not die of a heart attack," he told CNN. Switching to a plant-based diet, helped him lose over 20 pounds and get his heart health under control.
Adams, who is 61 and diabetic, has long said veganism saved his life.
Despite Adams’ baffling refusal to admit whether he’s actually a vegan followed by an admission that he eats fish, Adams has made “lifestyle medicine” a top priority for his new administration.
Adams implemented recurring vegan school lunches on Fridays, which were widely reported to be substandard, and, in some cases, not vegan.
Clinton’s praise was in response to a new push by the NYC Department of Health and Hospitals to offer lifestyle medicine services designed to improve diet at six public healthcare sites across the city.
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