antisugar en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar English antisugar From anti- + sugar.
Meanings
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Opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
That Joan is not such an antisugar fascist that she'd embarrass Haley in front of the Highlands and refuse to allow their delicious desserts into the house.
2008, Liz Ruckdeschel, Sara James, What If . . . Your Past Came Back to Haunt You, page 19:Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History:The chief topics of discussion were the importance of dental work in public schools, the antisugar campaign, the gospel of the clean mouth and the relation of systemic diseases to infected teeth.
1920, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 74, page 956:
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Countering the effects of sugar in mammalian metabolism.
We synthesized the new compound 4-((E)-((4-((E)-phenyldiazenyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)benzoic acid (E-PABA) that it ^([sic]) has antisugar and antibacterial activities
2017, M Sheikhi, S Shahab, L Filippovich, et al., “Interaction between new synthesized derivative of (E, E)-azomethines and BN (6, 6-7) nanotube for medical applications: Geometry optimization, molecular structure, spectroscopic (NMR, UV/Vis, excited state), FMO, MEP and HOMO-LUMO investigations”, in Journal of Molecular Structure:In another approach, antiglobulin neutralization was carried out by incubating the antiglobulin reagents directly with sugar-coated erythrocytes that had been sensitized with antisugar antibodies.
1984, P Lalezari, AF Jiang, M Kumar, I Lalezari, “Carbohydrate‐Specific Antibodies in Normal Human Sera: I. Characterization of Specificity for β‐D‐Glucose”, in Vox sanguinis, Wiley Online Library:Like many parents, I would welcome an antiwhining vaccine that causes no physical harm to my child but makes the act of whining more unpleasant to her than to me. An antisugar vaccine would also be nice, eliminating daily demands for ice cream and other desserts
2013, EA Feldman, “Shots for tots?”, in Hastings Center Report, Wiley Online Library:
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