The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came. Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Wainscott has some of the most expensive property in the world.
Over the course of a year, $1.50/day more for eating a healthy diet would increase food costs for one person by about $550 per year.
In Germany, the health-care cost was 65 million DM (about US$100 million) for anorexia nervosa and 10 million DM (about US$15.3 million) for bulimia nervosa during 1998. An Australian study reported the health-care costs of eating disorders to be Aus$22 million for the years 1993 to 1994.