The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach. John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer. This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from reporting error in weight.
Mars (62.5 gram bar) 43.6 grams or 11 teaspoons of sugar. Twix (58 gram bar) 38.0 grams or 9.5 teaspoons of sugar. Turkish Delight (51 gram bar) 37.9 grams or 9.5 teaspoons of sugar. Snickers (62.5 gram bar) 34.1 grams or 8.5 teaspoons of sugar. Kit Kat (4 fingers) 28.2 grams or 7 teaspoons of sugar. Cadbury Dairy Milk (49 gram bar) 27.9 grams or 7 teaspoons of sugar. Crunchie (40 gram bar) 27.8 grams or 7 teaspoons of sugar.
Unfortunately, at this time, labels donât differentiate between added and natural sugars, so you have to do some sleuthing. Keep in mind there are 4 grams of sugar in a teaspoon, so a food or beverage that contains 32 grams of sugar, for example, has 8 teaspoons of added sugar. Limit processed foods that contain sugar or any of its aliases in the first three ingredients or that contain multiple sugars throughout the ingredient list.