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.
Club Orange contains 14.3g of sugar per 100ml or the equivalent of 12 teaspoons of sugar per 330ml serving, while Sainsbury's cloudy lemonade packs in 11 teaspoons of sugar per 330ml. The survey also found that some elderflower sparkling drinks contain more sugar than Coca-Cola. For example, Tesco's Finest grape & elderflower spritz has 11.3g of sugar per 100 ml (37g of sugar per 330ml), while Coca-Cola and Pepsi were found to each have 10.6g of sugar per 100ml (35g of sugar per 330ml).