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sugar sickness

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English

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Etymology

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From sugar +‎ sickness, in reference to type 2 diabetes often being caused by a prolonged high-sugar diet, and that people with diabetes have chronic hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar.

Noun

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sugar sickness (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa, otherwise archaic) Diabetes; especially type 2 diabetes.