I second your reasoning on diet. Yes, do what is right for you. Cutting the majority of sugar and junk out of my diet had very similar results.

ontd_science is quite behind the times on that study, I heard of such things it seems a decade ago. While I very much second your opinion on such language, and my mother didn't use much baby-talk on us (as it turns out), I do try to be a bit patient that it is possible that having children (sort of like pets; see David Letterman) may affect humans in peculiar ways.

New Year: champagne & caviar!

Jealous, no thunderstorms at all for me!