Borough Prez, NYC Health + Hospitals introduce ‘Meatless Mondays’ at Coney Island Hospital
Meatless Mondays have come to New York City’s public hospitals.
NYC Health + Hospitals joined Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and the Monday Campaigns at Coney Island Hospital on Mon., Jan. 14, to mark the kick-off of a campaign whose goal is to improve the health of the city’s residents, and which draws on the past to benefit the future.
Meatless Mondays began after America’s entry into the First World War as a way of encouraging people to ration high protein foods needed by soldiers in the field. The program was re-enacted during World War II for similar, patriotic reasons. Today’s version is a front in a different battle, enlisted in the war against such devastating conditions as diabetes, hypertension, colorectal cancer and heart disease.