Did you hit the snooze button multiple times every morning? Have trouble getting a good night's sleep? Feel fatigued throughout the day? Are you trying unsuccessfully to lose weight?

Most people suffer from at least one of these maladies and the majority of these issues can be traced back to just one problem going on in your body... caffeine.

While a cup of coffee apparently stimulates your senses, a regular in take of caffeine can leave you a complete wreck. This is because coffee simply stimulates the central nervous system, increases the stress hormones in the blood stream and makes a person feel unnaturally alert. Consequently this induced alert state tends to subdue your body's natural instincts and prevent it from relaxing causing undue stress and leading to all kinds of disorders.

Daily caffeine intake induces a 24 hour cyclic disturbance in your body. While the morning cup perks up your mood most people can't stop at that. Almost everyone develops a craving for the next cup and subsequently, a heavy fatigue sets in by late afternoon. Even if another cup revives you at this time of the day, a total collapse is inevitable by evening.

Irritability, fatigue and gloom are the usual symptoms. And worse yet is that finally when you try to sleep away your blues at night, you can't. This sleep deprivation is the silent reason why so many people have trouble losing weigh because a good night's sleep is essential to any successful weight loss program. but that's not the end, the next morning you get up tired, thirsting for another fix to settle your mood. So the next time you take a sip remember you are sipping a host of health problems and stay tuned tomorrow for suggestions on how to rid yourself of the vicious caffeine cycle!