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Ask anyone with insulin-dependent Diabetes. Some or all of the following would happen:

* Glucose from the blood would be unable to enter the body's tissues, since insulin is required each time that happens.

* Cells in the body would be denied glucose, their primary fuel. Some cells would die, others like brain cells would move to a secondary fuel (ketone bodies).

* Glucose remaining in the blood would accumulate, rising higher and higher.

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