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.
Eating healthy costs $1.50 more per day only if your time has no value. Fresh food has to be prepared, and that takes time and effort. The true cost of fresh food has to factor in the value put into its preparation, and that's why so many people eat out.
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.