"Mayor Eric Adams... has talked in public about the warmth of his own smile."

"Describing 'Healthy at Last,' a book that he published in 2020 about his disciplined response to a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, Adams told a podcast host, 'Every time I read it, I find another nugget, and say, "Wow! This was a good point that I made."' Adams once told an audience, 'I get out of the shower sometimes and I say, "Damn!"'..."

 
From "Eric Adams’s Administration of Bluster/The Mayor of New York City tells a personal story that is compelling and often untruthful. With a thin list of accomplishments so far, can he address the city’s problems?" (The New Yorker).

"... Adams follows a self-care regimen that includes meditation, a diet rich in plants, naps in the car—and the kind of breathing exercises that he has ordered city schools to teach, and that he encourages his staffers to emulate. Rachel Atcheson, a close adviser, told me, without complaint, that under Adams’s influence she now sleeps with her mouth taped shut, 'in order to force myself to breathe through my nose.' (Her dreams, she said, have become more vivid.) Adams defends his life-style enthusiasms but isn’t always earnest about them. When I sounded skeptical of Wim Hof, a Dutch ice-bath evangelist whose program Adams has started to follow, he laughed, saying, 'You’re going to call my idol a lunatic?'"