diabetesnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdaɪ.əˈbiː.tiːz/us/ˌdaɪ.əˈbiː.t̬əs/a disease in which the body cannot control the level of sugar in the blood
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Examples from literature
- Being too heavy can cause health problems, such as diabetes.
- Doctors say that drinking only one soft drink a day makes it twice as possible that a person will get diabetes.
- Fortunately, for most people, healthy eating and enough exercise will stop type 2 diabetes.
- In the past, very few people had type 2 diabetes.
- In type 1 diabetes, the body cannot use its own glucose, or blood sugar.
- People with diabetes should not eat foods with sugar.
- The biggest problem with eating too much sugar may be that it can cause a disease called type 2 diabetes.
- Type 1 diabetes is natural – a person is born with it.
- Type 2 diabetes can be caused by eating badly for a long time.
- Bread made from almonds thus baked and pulverized, is considered an excellent food for persons suffering with diabetes.
- He was afflicted with diabetes, and dreamed that he was cured by drinking the water of this spring.
- People suffering from diabetes require a peculiar preparation of their food.
- Still other forms of alcoholic disease of the liver are produced, one being the excessive formation of sugar, constituting what is known as a form of diabetes.
- The presence of grape sugar or glucose indicates the disease known as diabetes.