November is National Diabetes Month, a time when communities across the country team up to bring attention to diabetes. This year’s focus is on prediabetes and preventing diabetes.

Today is National Stress Awareness Day, a 24-hour reinforcement that you are not doing yourself a favor by stressing about situations you cannot control. Everyone feels stressed from time to time, as it is how the brain and body respond to any demand. Needless to say, stress can affect your health, hence it is important to pay attention as to how you deal with minor and major stressors to know when it is time to seek help.

Today, on World Mental Health Day, it will have been more than 18 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In some countries, life is returning to some semblance of normality; in others, rates of transmission and hospital admissions remain high, disrupting the lives of families and communities.