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"Sugar diabetes": Diabetes mellitus is the medical term for the common form of diabetes. Diabetes is a word which originally meant "flow like a siphon" or "frequent urination" and mellitus means "sweet". This is the most common form of diabetes in the US i.e. diabetes mellitus type 2. This is from insulin resistance which occurs mostly from obesity.
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