Feeling sick lately? Maybe you should take up The Common Sense Diet. It's a diet for people like myself - people that don't have the time/energy/willpower to stick to a strict diet. If you are like me, you just don't really care about dieting. You care about being healthy, but you don't care enough to count calories and spend all kinds of energy paying attention to what you can and can't eat.

With that in mind, I think I have come up with a diet plan that gets rid of the work of dieting and replaces it with common sense. It consists of three simple tests that take only seconds to figure out. Just run whatever food or drink through these three tests and only eat the foods that pass.

 Test #1: The Mold Test

• The Mold Test is simple. If I leave this food out on the counter, will it grow mold or just become stale? If the food will become stale before it grows mold then it's probably not real food and you shouldn't eat it. Also, if the food will never grow mold or is already growing mold, don't eat it.

Test #2: The Scientist Test

• The next time you look at a food at the grocery store, ask yourself, "Between the time this thing was born/planted and now, did it pass through the hands of a scientist?" If the answer is yes then you are probably looking at mutated corn and you shouldn't eat it. Also, if you can't easily figure out if the food you are looking ever actually was born/planted then you are probably looking at mutated corn and you shouldn't eat it.

Test #3: The Ingredients Test

• An ingredients test? I thought this diet was about common sense and not paying attention - Don't worry, this test is easy because for our purposes it only applies to drinks. If a drink has more than one ingredient, don't drink it. That essentially narrows the list of acceptable drinks down to just water. Easy.

Please note that this diet is far from perfect and there are many exceptions to all of these rules. The diet is made for lazy dieters like myself that don't have the time/energy/desire to eat perfectly and is more like the Pirate Code than strict United States law (think "guidelines"). It is completely possible to follow this diet and be very unhealthy. This diet is backed by no science whatsoever, but you know it is good advice because it is common sense.