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.
(That's a little less than what you'd get from 10 Hershey's Kisses. A single can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar.). A teaspoon of sugar in your coffee or a half cup of ice cream won't kill you â all things in moderation â but the average sugar intake in the U.S. is 22 teaspoons per person per day.