Did you wear your red today? I did.

(Even thought it's an awful colour for me.) Okay, technically it was a female thing, so you guys are off the hook. But just in case you wondered why some many women were wearing red today, check out the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women website. February 1st was National Wear Red Day in hopes of raising awareness that heart disease is the number one killer of women.

(Now if I can just find a cause that has you wear purple, my favourite colour and incidentally one of the best ones for me to wear. Purple ribbons are worn for a host of causes; I guess I could pick one of them.)

Cautious

I'm still not really happy to be on this drug, although I have no history of heart problems in my family that I know of, so the risk of heart attack should be small. And the studies are conflicting and flawed. So for now I'll stay on it.

Diabetes drug Avandia should stay on market: U.S. health panel rules

Interesting

It's associative, not necessarily causal, but sodas--even diet drinks--have been linked with metabolic syndrome, the cluster of factors that leads to diabetes (this happened to me) and heart disease.

Study Links Diet Soft Drinks With Cardiac Risk