“…Urinary losses up to this rate are negligible [10,12,14,19,33,35], Metabolically healthy persons are able to meet the administered glucose load by an ap parently steady new production of insulin, and Seltzer and H arris [27] as well as G raber et al [8] have shown that even a constant glucose infusion lasting up to 7 days was unable to exhaust insulin reserve. It is of interest that results showing glucose to be metabolized to a lesser degree than other hexoses were mainly derived from surgical patients during the postoperative period [1,22,30], The stress condition due to surgical trauma, favoring glyco lysis and gluconeogenesis, was held responsible for the above-cited effect [26], Certainly, glucose should not be routinely administered to diabetics.…”