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Apparently November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. It seems to me that if you want to really make people aware of it, make Diabetes Awareness Month either February, when you're supposed to be buying your significant other pounds and pounds of chocolate, or April, when you're supposed to be buying Easter candy by the truckload. (October would work too, but October, it seems, was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.) Since most of what the general public knows about diabetes is that diabetics can't eat sugar, why not tie it to the major sugar-selling holidays? (Because it would annoy the sugar industry, that's why, even though the medical profession has been saying "Stop eating so much sugar!" for years now. Besides, February is Black History Month already anyway.)

Are we going to get to the point where every month has a list of Awarenesses, the way the Catholic calendar has several saints per day?