antisugar

English edit

Etymology edit

anti- +‎ sugar

Adjective edit

antisugar (comparative more antisugar, superlative most antisugar)

Opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
- 1920, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association‎^[1], volume 74, page 956:
  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.
- 1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History‎^[2]:
  Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- 2008, Liz Ruckdeschel, Sara James, What If . . . Your Past Came Back to Haunt You‎^[3], page 19:
  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.
Countering the effects of sugar in mammalian metabolism.
- 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:
  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.
- 2013, EA Feldman, “Shots for tots?”, in Hastings Center Report, 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
- 2017, M SheikhiS ShahabL Filippovichet 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:
  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

Noun edit

antisugar (uncountable)

A substance that reacts readily to consume sugars.
- 1954, Archivos latinoamericanos de nutrición‎^[4], volume 5, page 405:
  As one special example the author states that alcohol is an antisugar having calorigenic value but at the same time an antidynamic action.