Ignoring the fact that I wasn't thinking of the total extra calories of anyone eating a piece of chocolate (a piece being undefined in size anyway) to end at that piece of chocolate…
The UK's top selling chocolate is Cadbury's Dairy Milk. It's 45 grams in total, and each of the 60 pieces is indeed 40 calories. Most people I know eat the whole thing, and those people are overweight, like the majority of the UK public, an obesity rate that is matched in many countries world wide. As of a couple of years ago, diabetes diagnoses have doubled in the last 15 years
> that over 4.9 million people are currently living with diabetes in the UK, with 90 per cent of those with type 2
type 2 diabetes being the one that correlates, if not is caused by, obesity. Additionally:
> 13.6m people are now at increased risk of type 2 diabetes in the UK
Again, this is a world wide problem[1]. Just the other day I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast about eye health and the expert pointed out that the upsurge in diabetes in the US and elsewhere was threatening eye health[2].
So, you may say it's only 40 calories but the data shows that people are getting fatter, because those eating a piece per day aren't only eating a piece per day, whether that's chocolate or other things. If it were just the extra 40 calories there wouldn't be a problem.
