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.
In February, McDonald's oatmeal was outed for having more sugar than a Snickers bar, despite being marketed as a healthier breakfast option than some of the fast-food chain's more well-known fare. In 2009, the American Heart Association recommended that women eat or drink no more than 20 grams of added sugar a day, and men no more than 36 grams. That means one Snickers bar, at 30 grams of sugar, would be about all the sugar the average man should eat in an entire day. For women, that's equivalent to about one Twinkie, which will set you back 18 grams.