sugar sickness

English

Etymology

From sugar +‎ sickness, in reference to type 2 diabetes often being caused by a prolonged high-sugar diet.

Noun

sugar sickness (uncountable)

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