Diabetes occurs when the pancreas either cannot or has trouble making
             enough insulin to control the sugar a person receives from their food.
             (Bete, Co. 1972) Diabetes Mellitus is broken down into two groups:
             Juvenile (Type One), and Adult (Type Two) (McHenry, 1993). Type One
             diabetics are insulin dependant. People under forty years of age are more
             prone to this type. They have low serum insulin levels and it more often
             affects small blood vessels in eyes and kidneys. Type Two diabetics are
             non-insulin dependant. This type is prone to people over forty years of
             age. They have low, normal or high serum insulin levels. It most often
             affects large blood vessels and nerves (Long, 1993). Type One diabetes was
             one of the earliest diseases to be documented by historians. Once called
             "honey urine" and the "Persian fire". The name diabetes was conceived by
             the Greek physician Arteus almost eighteen hundred years ago. The disease
             remained a mystery until 1700 when an English doctor demonstrated that a
             diabetic's blood was abnormally high in sugar (Aaseng, 1995). Thus,
             bringing to the conclusion that diabetics are unable to use blood sugar as
             other persons bodies do (McHenry, 1993). With this fact, a young doctor
             named Fredrick Banting and a biochemist, Charles Best, were lead to the
             discovery of manufacturing insulin, the hormone for which is the key to
             blood sugar processing. Many diabetics lives have been saved because of
             this discovery (Aaseng, 1995). A person is at risk of this disorder if
             they have diabetic relatives, are over the age of forty years, are
             over-weight, and if they are of certain racial or ethnic groups. Women
             with gestational diabetes who give birth to a baby that weighs more than
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