Type 1 diabetics frequently experience ketoacidosis. Administration of insulin decreases the serum concentration of ketone bodies in these patients via which of the following mechanisms?
A) decreasing formation of ketone bodies in skeletal muscle
B) decreasing lipolysis in adipose tissue
C) increasing hepatic activity of carnitine acyltransferase
D) increasing hepatic levels of acetyl-CoA
E) increasing hepatic oxidation of ketone bodies
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