there are the so called 'energy drinks" which are basically delivery systems for high doses of sugar and caffeine Monster, Red Bull, and Rockstar, three of the most popular brands, each provide about 80 milligrams of caffeine per bottle. The bottom line is that a great many people are consuming massive quantities of caffeine on a daily basis and that their need for caffeine has become a soft addiction. Their choice of coffee or soda or an energy drink has ceased to be merely a pleasant beverage. Debida The caffeine these drinks provide has become a necessity. When caffeine addicts wake up in the morning, the first thing they think of is getting that initial caffeine hit. Until they have had hanuzzle it they tend to be grouchy, groggy, and Mhad . unwilling to interact with people. If they are in a situation where their caffeinated Again, in the past, excessive TV watching beverage of choice isn't available, was less common. There were only a they become almost frantic. They are few major networks, so the choices nervous and shaky, often have a raging of what to view were limited. Today, headache, and cannot concentrate on by contrast, the choices are almost anything until they've found a caffeine limitless, including hundreds of cable source. This cycle often repeats itself in channels, network shows, and instant- mid-afternoon and early evening, when view movies. According to the most the need for more caffeine hits. They recent AC Nielsen study, the average have to take breaks, even if it means American watches 34 hours of TV a neglecting their work or interrupting week, plus another three to six hours an important conversation, to seek out of taped programs. That adds up to the another caffeine fix. At day's end, their (equivalent of a 40-hour workweek. And brains are still buzzing with the effects of course, that's only the average viewer, of caffeine, and they sleep poorly. They meaning that half of all viewers watch awaken groggy and ill-tempered, and more-sometimes much, much more. the cycle begins again. In some cases, it's almost impossible to Television viewing is another measure how much television a person activity that can slip over the line from actually watches, because the TV is on harmless pastime to a soft addiction. virtually all the time. inofensive