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.
The survey of 232 drinks from leading supermarkets also found that Asda, Lidl, Sainsburyâs, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose cola all contained more sugar than Coca-Cola. Elderflower drinks were also surprisingly high in sugar. Shloer white grape and elderflower had nine teaspoons per 330ml.Some 79 per cent of drinks surveyed contained six or more teaspoons of sugar per can with ginger beer found to contain the highest levels.ainsburyâs cloudy lemonade contains 11 teaspoons of sugar per 330ml;Waitrose cream soda nine teaspoons and Marks & Spencer ginger beer, 11 teaspoons.