NYC Mayor Promotes Vegan Diet Over Diabetes Meds

Vice News reports:

In You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, a new documentary airing on Netflix, New York City mayor Eric Adams promotes not taking medication for diabetes and instead adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet—a potentially deadly recommendation rejected by both the director of the documentary and the expert who designed the study on which it’s centered.

In the documentary, he says he didn’t take prescribed medication for diabetes and instead treated himself by changing his diet. This conflicts with a different version of the same story Adams told in a 2020 book he wrote, in which he describes the “upset stomach and general fatigue” medication gave him.

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NEW: In new Netflix doc, Eric Adams promotes diabetics not taking their meds and instead reversing the disease with veganism, as he claims he did. In his 2020 book, though, he says he did take his meds. Spokesperson won’t say which version is correct. https://t.co/2APo8MwgDy

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