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The DSM-IV-TR criteria for establishing the diagnosis of anorexia
or bulimia nervosa appear in Tables 2 and 3, respectively.
Although DSM-IV-TR criteria allow clinicians to diagnose patients
with a specific eating disorder, eating disorder symptoms frequently
occur along a continuum between those of anorexia nervosa and those
of bulimia nervosa. Weight preoccupation and excessive self-evaluation of
weight and shape are primary symptoms in both disorders, and many
patients demonstrate a mixture of both anorexic and bulimic behaviors.
For example, 50%–64% of patients with
anorexia nervosa develop bulimic symptoms, and some patients who
are initially bulimic develop anorexic symptoms (476, 477). Patients
with atypical features who deny a fear of weight gain, accurately
appraise their bodies as malnourished, and deny distorted perceptions
of their body constituted about 20% of the patients admitted
to a specialty eating disorder program (478). Denial of a fear of
weight gain was found in 28% of anorexia nervosa patients
assessed via a structured interview (479).
Anorexia nervosa appears in two subtypes: restricting and
binge eating/purging; this classification into subtypes
is based on the presence or absence of binge eating or purging symptoms.
Patients with anorexia nervosa can alternate between the bulimic
and restricting subtypes at different periods of their illness (480–483).
Among patients with the binge eating/purging subtype of
anorexia nervosa, further distinctions can be made between those who
both binge and purge and those who purge but do not objectively
binge. Patients with bulimia nervosa can be subclassified into the
purging or nonpurging subtype. Patients with the nonpurging subtype
use inappropriate methods to compensate for binge eating, including
fasting and excessive exercising, as opposed to patients with binge
eating disorder, who do not use inappropriate compensatory strategies.
Many patients, particularly younger patients, have combinations
of eating disorder symptoms that cannot be strictly categorized as
anorexia or bulimia nervosa and are technically diagnosed as EDNOS
(484). The value of requiring persistent amenorrhea as a criterion
for diagnosing anorexia nervosa has been questioned (24).
Patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa often experience
associated psychiatric symptoms and behaviors. Social isolation
is common in patients with anorexia nervosa. Depressive, anxious,
and obsessional symptoms; perfectionistic traits; rigid cognitive styles;
and a lack of interest in sex are often present among patients with
the restricting type of anorexia nervosa (363). Early in the course
of their illness, patients with anorexia nervosa often have limited
recognition of their disorder and experience their symptoms as intrusive
repetitive thoughts; sometimes there is a corresponding limited
recognition of the disorder by patients' families. Depressive,
anxious, and impulsive symptoms, as well as sexual conflicts and
disturbances with intimacy, are often associated with bulimia nervosa. Although
patients with bulimia nervosa are likely to recognize their disorder,
shame or guilt frequently prevents them from seeking treatment for
it at an early stage (485). In one subgroup of patients with bulimia
nervosa (the "multi-impulsive" bulimic patients),
significant degrees of impulsivity have been observed and are manifested
as stealing, self-harm behaviors, suicidality, substance use, and
sexual promiscuity (486, 487). Patients with anorexia nervosa of
the binge eating/purging subtype may also be suicidal and
engage in self-harming behaviors.
In the psychodynamic literature, patients with anorexia nervosa
have been described as having difficulties with separation and autonomy
(often manifested as enmeshed relationships with parents), affect
regulation (including the direct expression of anger and aggression),
and negotiation of psychosexual development. These deficits may
make women who are predisposed to anorexia nervosa more vulnerable
to cultural pressures for achieving a stereotypic body image (142,
169, 488, 489).
Psychodynamic issues in bulimic patients have been understood
in a number of ways, ranging from viewing bulimic symptoms as manifestations
of impulsivity or problems with emotion regulation and dissociative
states to viewing them along a spectrum of self-harming behaviors commonly
seen in patients with borderline personality organization (363,
Some of the clinical features associated with eating disorders
may result from malnutrition or semistarvation (493, 494). Studies
of volunteers who have submitted to semistarvation experiments and
semistarved prisoners of war report the development of food preoccupation,
food hoarding, abnormal taste preferences, binge eating, and other
disturbances of appetite regulation as well as symptoms
of depression, obsessionality, apathy and irritability, and other
personality changes (279). In patients with anorexia nervosa, some
of these starvation-related phenomena, such as abnormal taste preference,
may completely reverse with refeeding, although it may take considerable
time after weight restoration for them to abate completely. However,
some of these symptoms may reflect both preexisting and enduring
traits, such as obsessive-compulsiveness, which are then further
exacerbated by semistarvation. Such symptoms, therefore, may be
only partially reversed with nutritional rehabilitation (82, 495).
Complete psychological assessments may not be possible until some
degree of weight restoration is achieved. Although patients with
bulimia nervosa may appear to be physically within the standards
of healthy weight, they may also show psychological and biological
correlates of semistarvation, such as depression, irritability, and
obsessionality, and may be below their personally optimum weight
range, even at a weight considered to be "normal" according
to population norms (496, 497). Furthermore, even at normal weight,
body composition may be abnormal.
Common physical complications of anorexia nervosa are listed
in Table 5. Amenorrhea of even a few months may be associated with
osteopenia, which may progress to potentially irreversible osteoporosis
and a correspondingly higher rate of pathological fractures (498, 499).
If fracture risk is substantial, patients should be cautioned to
avoid high-impact exercises. Pain in the extremities may signal
stress fractures that may not be evident on X-rays but may be detected
in abnormal bone scan results. Patients with anorexia nervosa who
develop hypoestrogenemic amenorrhea in their teenage years that
persists into young adulthood are at greatest risk for osteoporosis
because they not only lose bone mass but also fail to form bone
at a critical development phase (207). Osteopenia may be present
in women who have been recovered from anorexia nervosa for up to
21 years (500). In addition, prepubertal and early pubertal patients
are also at risk for permanent growth stunting (501, 502).
Acute complications of anorexia nervosa include dehydration,
electrolyte disturbances (with purging), cardiac compromise with
various arrhythmias (including conduction defects and ventricular
arrhythmias), gastrointestinal motility disturbances, renal problems, infertility,
premature births, other perinatal complications, hypothermia, and
other evidence of hypometabolism (43). Death from anorexia nervosa
is often proximally due to cardiac arrest secondary to arrhythmias
Common physical complications of bulimia nervosa are listed
in Table 6. The most serious physical complications occur in patients
with chronic, severe patterns of binge eating and purging and are
of most concern in very-low-weight patients (504).
Laboratory abnormalities in anorexia nervosa may include leukopenia
with relative lymphocytosis, abnormal liver function, hypoglycemia,
hypercortisolemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypercarotenemia
(the latter two findings attributed to reduced catabolism), low serum
zinc levels, electrolyte disturbances, and widespread disturbances
in endocrine function. Low potassium levels may result from purging
by any of several methods and can lead to potentially fatal cardiac
arrhythmias. Sometimes abnormalities in serum chloride or bicarbonate
levels precede low potassium levels. Electrolyte abnormalities can
occur quickly and require ongoing monitoring in patients with extensive
vomiting or laxative and/or diuretic abuse alone or in
combination with low weight. In such patients, electrolyte levels should
be repeated periodically to assess for abnormalities. Thyroid abnormalities
may include low T4 levels, even though thyroid-stimulating
hormone levels are in the normal range; the low T4 levels
reverse with weight restoration and generally should not be treated
with hormone replacement therapy (200, 505–507). Normal
serum phosphorus values may be misleading because they do not reflect
total body phosphorus depletion (which is usually reflected in serum
phosphorus only after refeeding has begun). In early malnutrition,
when many other laboratory measures may still be within normal limits,
serum complement component 3 and 4 and serum transferrin may be
abnormally low and serve as indicators of nutritional status (71).
Abnormal findings on magnetic resonance images reflect changes
in the brain (508). White matter and cerebrospinal fluid volumes
appear to return to the normal range after weight restoration. However,
gray matter volume deficits, which correlate with the patient's
lowest recorded BMI, may persist even after weight restoration (99, 509, 510). Some patients show persistent deficits in their neuropsychological
testing results that have been shown to be associated with poorer
outcomes (511).
It is important to consider that laboratory findings in anorexia
nervosa may be normal in spite of a patient's profound
malnutrition. For example, patients may have low total body potassium
levels even when serum electrolytes are normal and thus may be prone
to unpredictable cardiac arrhythmias (512).
Laboratory abnormalities in bulimia nervosa may include electrolyte
imbalances such as hypokalemia, hypochloremic alkalosis,
mild elevations of serum amylase (most often salivary in origin),
and hypomagnesemia and hypophosphatemia, especially in patients
who abuse laxatives (513–515).
Estimates of the incidence or prevalence of eating disorders
vary depending on the sampling and assessment methods, and many
gaps exist in our current knowledge base. The reported lifetime
prevalence of anorexia nervosa among women has ranged from 0.3% for narrowly
defined to 3.7% for more broadly defined anorexia nervosa
(25, 516, 517). With regard to bulimia nervosa, estimates of the
lifetime prevalence among women have ranged from 1% to
4.2% (516, 518, 519). Some studies suggest that the prevalence
of bulimia nervosa in the United States may have decreased slightly
in recent years (520), whereas the prevalence of anorexia nervosa
may have increased slightly (421, 521). Eating disorders are more
commonly seen among girls and women, with estimates of the male-female
prevalence ratio ranging from 1:6 to 1:10 (516). The prevalence
of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in American children and
younger adolescents is not well documented.
In the United States, eating disorders appear to be about
as common in young Hispanic and Native American women as in Caucasian
women and less common among African American and Asian women (522–524).
Although studies have shown that preadolescent African American
girls report a higher drive for thinness than Caucasian girls (525, 526), the drive for thinness increases significantly in Caucasian
girls during puberty and remains unchanged in African American girls
(527). Disordered eating is prevalent in many other countries. In
a Scandinavian study of girls and boys ages 14–15 years,
0.7% of the girls and 0.2% of the boys reported
a lifetime prevalence of anorexia nervosa, and 1.2% of
the girls and 0.4% of the boys reported a lifetime prevalence
of bulimia nervosa (528). Studies in Japan suggest that the prevalence
of eating disorders is on the rise there. Recent data indicate that
>50% of female college students report a history of significant
and persistent dieting, 40% use diet pills or drinks to
lose weight, and 18% report a BMI <18.5 kg/m2 (529).
However, the latter finding requires cautious interpretation, because
appropriate BMI ranges might vary by ethnic grouping; for example,
the normal range of BMI might actually be lower in Asian populations
than in North American and European populations (530). Eating disorder
concerns and symptoms do appear to be increasing among Chinese women
exposed to Western culture and modernization in cities such as Hong Kong
(531–533). The prevalence of disturbed eating disorders
attitudes, as assessed by surveys, also appears to be high in other
non-Western countries such as Iran, nonwhite South Africa, and Fiji
(429, 534, 535).
First-degree female relatives of patients with anorexia and
bulimia nervosa have higher rates of eating disorders compared with
relatives of control subjects (536–539). In addition, relatives
of individuals with anorexia and bulimia nervosa have increased
rates of eating disorders that do not meet full diagnostic criteria
compared with relatives of control subjects (538, 539). Identical
twin siblings of patients with anorexia or bulimia nervosa also have
higher rates of these disorders, with monozygotic twins having higher
concordance than dizygotic twins. Families of patients with bulimia
nervosa have been found to have higher rates of substance abuse
(particularly alcohol use disorders), affective disorders, and certain
personality traits, including elevated levels of perfectionism and
an increased sense of ineffectiveness (540, 541). In Fiji, the prevalence
of binge eating disorder is comparable to that in the United States
High rates of co-occurring psychiatric illness are found in
patients seeking treatment at tertiary-level psychiatric treatment
centers. Lifetime co-occurring major depression or dysthymia has
been reported in 50%–75% of patients
with anorexia (323, 324) and bulimia (324, 331) nervosa. Estimates
of the prevalence of bipolar disorder among patients with anorexia
or bulimia nervosa are usually around 4%–6% but
have been reported to be as high as 13% (325). The lifetime
prevalence of OCD among anorexia nervosa patients has been as high
as 25% (82, 323, 543), with OCD frequently predating the
onset of anorexia nervosa (341, 461). Obsessive-compulsive symptomatology
has been found in a large majority of weight-restored patients with
anorexia nervosa treated in tertiary-level care centers (544). OCD
is also common among patients with bulimia nervosa (82, 331, 543).
Co-occurring anxiety disorders, particularly social phobias, are
common among patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa (82, 310,
323, 331, 543). Substance abuse has been found in as many as 23%–40% of
patients with bulimia nervosa. Among patients with anorexia nervosa,
estimates of those with substance abuse have ranged from 12% to
18%, with this problem occurring primarily among those
with the binge eating/purging subtype (308, 310, 323, 545).
Co-occurring personality disorders are frequently found among
patients with eating disorders, with estimates ranging from 42% to
75%. The associations between bulimia nervosa
and Cluster B and C disorders (particularly borderline personality
disorder and avoidant personality disorder) and between anorexia
nervosa and Cluster C disorders (particularly avoidant personality
disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder) have been
reported (546, 547). Eating disorder patients with personality disorders
are more likely than those without personality disorders to also
have concurrent mood or substance use disorders (308, 331). Co-occurring
personality disorders are significantly more common among patients
with the binge eating/purging subtype of anorexia nervosa
than among patients with the restricting subtype or in normal-weight
patients with bulimia nervosa (349).
Sexual abuse has been reported in 20%–50% of
patients with bulimia (346) and anorexia (221, 548) nervosa, although
sexual abuse may be more common in patients with bulimia nervosa
than in those with the restricting subtype of anorexia nervosa (346, 549). Childhood sexual abuse histories are reported more often in
women with all psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders,
than in women from the general population (549). Women who have
eating disorders in the context of sexual abuse appear to have higher
rates of comorbid psychiatric conditions than other women with eating
disorders (314, 346). Furthermore, individuals with bulimia nervosa
are reported to have experienced higher rates of other types of
trauma besides childhood sexual abuse, including adult rape and
molestation, aggravated assault, and physical neglect (332, 550, 551).
Although the overall percentage of individuals who fully recover
from anorexia nervosa is modest, it is well established that younger
patients who receive prompt and appropriate intervention have a
much better full recovery rate. For example, in the study by Strober
et al. (19), >70% of adolescents had a full and lasting
recovery 5 years after the onset of comprehensive treatment. Although
some patients improve symptomatically over time, a substantial proportion
continue to have body image disturbances, disordered eating, and
other psychiatric difficulties (163, 324, 552). In one 10-year follow-up
study, a relapse rate of 42% was seen during the first
posthospitalization year for patients with anorexia nervosa (553).
A review of a large number of studies of patients who were hospitalized
or who received tertiary-level care and were followed up at least
4 years after the onset of illness indicates that "good" outcomes
occurred in 44% of the patients (i.e., weight restored
to within 15% of recommended weight for height and regular
menstruation established), although these criteria are clearly insufficient
to consider a patient as recovered or even as having restored weight
to an adequate level. Poor outcomes occurred in about 24% (weight
never reached within 15% of recommended weight for height;
menstruation absent or at best sporadic), and intermediate outcomes
occurred in about 28% (163). Approximately 5% of
the patients died. Overall, about two-thirds of anorexia nervosa
patients continue to have enduring morbid food and weight preoccupation,
and up to 40% have bulimic symptoms. Even among those who
have good outcomes as defined by restoration of weight and menses,
many have other persistent psychiatric symptoms, including dysthymia,
social phobia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and substance abuse
(323, 554).
Among adolescents with anorexia nervosa, approximately 50%–70% recover,
20% are improved but continue to have residual symptoms,
and 10%–20% develop chronic anorexia
nervosa (163). In a 10- to 15-year follow-up study of adolescent
patients hospitalized for anorexia nervosa76% of
whom met criteria for full recoverytime to recovery was
quite protracted, ranging from 57 to 79 months depending on the
definition of recovery (19, 478). Anorexia nervosa patients with
atypical features, such as denying a fear of gaining weight or denying
distorted perceptions of their bodies, had a somewhat better course
(478). Although good outcomes were observed in only 35% of
80 patients in Eisler et al.'s 5-year follow-up study (155),
outcomes were good in 62% of the 21 patients who had been
ill for <3 years and whose illness began before age 19.
Diagnostic migration occurs in patients with anorexia nervosa,
reflecting the development of binge eating and/or purging
behavior. The most frequent change among diagnostic categories is
from anorexia nervosa, restricting type, to anorexia nervosa, binge
eating/purging type; most changes occur by the fifth year
after the onset of illness (477, 553). In one study, >50% of
patients with anorexia nervosa, restricting type (both adolescents
and adults) developed bulimic symptomatology over the course of
follow-up, and only a small fraction of patients with anorexia nervosa,
restricting type remained in that diagnostic subtype (555). Factors
leading to the development of bulimic symptoms among patients with anorexia
nervosa, restricting type are not well understood, nor is the precise
time course of this development.
Mortality rates in eating disorders, specifically anorexia
nervosa, are among the highest in the mental disorders. The prognosis
of anorexia nervosa does not appear to have improved during the
20th century (163, 556, 557). Harris and Barraclough (558) calculated the
standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) for all causes of death in
152 English language reports from a MEDLINE search on the mortality
of mental disorder. The highest risk of premature death from natural
and unnatural causes was related to eating disorders and substance
abuse. Another study analyzing 10 large samples of individuals with
eating disorders found strong evidence for an elevated SMR in eight
of these samples, with a definitely elevated SMR for anorexia nervosa
and no conclusion for bulimia nervosa. Lower weight at presentation
was associated with a higher SMR. Mortality also varied with age
at presentation, with an SMR of 3.6 for those presenting under age
20 years; 9.9, for ages 20–29 years; and 5.7, for age 30
years or older. Among female patients, the risk of death was 0.59% per
year (559).
Deaths among male patients from anorexia nervosa have also
been studied. In a recent report, two national registers, the National
Patient Register (NPR) and the Causes of Death Register (CODR),
were examined in Norway for deaths related to anorexia nervosa that
occurred during a 9-year period (1992–2000). The medical
record or death certificate listed anorexia nervosa as a diagnosis
or cause of death for 66 individuals. Rates of death related to
anorexia nervosa were 6.46 and 9.93 per 100,000 deaths for the NPR
and the CODR, respectively. A substantial percentage of deaths (43.9%)
in both registers occurred at or above age 65 years. For the NPR,
the mean age at the time of death was 61 years, and 31% of
deaths occurred among men. For the CODR, the mean age at the time
of death was 49 years, and 18% of deaths occurred among
men (560).
In other analyses, approximately 5.6% of patients
diagnosed with anorexia nervosa die per decade of illness (561),
and female anorexia nervosa patients are reportedly 12 times more likely
to die than women of a similar age in the general population (321).
The most common causes of death are suicide and starvation-related
effects. The suicide rate among women with anorexia nervosa is up
to 57 times higher than that for women of a similar age in the general
population (321). Lower weight at presentation, longer duration
of illness, and severe alcohol use appear to be associated with
higher risk of mortality (321, 562).
Nielsen (563) conducted a literature review of mortality studies
in eating disorders and concluded that methodological problems created
biases to the eating disorder mortality data. The major problems
with these studies were small sample sizes and loss of patients
to follow-up. Mortality and morbidity for anorexia nervosa, bulimia
nervosa, and related disorders are likely to be underreported because
they go unrecognized by clinicians. Patients' denial of
illness may result in their avoidance of treatment at an early phase
and the later development of multiple chronic physical problems,
with associated morbidity and mortality (321, 563).
A shorter duration of illness and younger age at onset have
been associated with a better outcome; lower initial minimum weights,
vomiting, binge eating, purgative abuse, chronicity of illness,
and obsessive-compulsive personality symptoms are reported to be
unfavorable prognostic features (163). However, many of these prognostic
indicators have not been consistently replicated and may be more
reliable predictors of short-term but not long-term outcomes. In
general, adolescents have better outcomes than adults and younger
adolescents have better outcomes than older adolescents.
Although the literature on the long-term course and prognosis
of bulimia nervosa remains limited, studies over the last decade
have begun to clarify these issues. First, studies have shown that
in untreated community samples, there are modest degrees of spontaneous improvement
over a 1- to 2-year period, with roughly a 25%–30% reduction
in binge eating, purging, and laxative abuse (564, 565). The overall
short-term success rate for patients receiving psychosocial treatment
or medication has been reported to be 50%–70% (324).
Relapse rates of 30%–85% have been reported
for successfully treated patients at 6 months to 6 years of follow-up
(329, 566).
In a 5-year period, most individuals with bulimia nervosa
in the community continue to have some form of an eating disorder
of clinical severity, with about 33% remitting each year and
another 33% relapsing to full diagnostic criteria, which
suggests a relatively poor prognosis for this untreated group (567).
In a naturalistic longitudinal study of 110 treatment-seeking women
with bulimia nervosa, 73% achieved full recovery (no bingeing
or purging for at least 8 consecutive weeks) at some point during
a median of 7 years of follow-up, and 36% of those relapsed
(568). A 6-year follow-up of patients treated for bulimia nervosa found
that 60% of the patients were rated as having a good outcome,
29% as having an intermediate outcome, and 10% as
having a poor outcome; 1% were reported as having died (569).
A review of the treatment literature by this same group (570) found
that, over time, social adjustment tended to normalize in some patients
but that a fairly large group experienced chronic symptomatology
and impairment; there was little crossover to anorexia nervosa or
binge eating disorder. The longest follow-up study to date (562),
with a mean follow-up of 11.5 years, found that the number of women
who continued to meet full diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa
declined over time. At long-term follow-up, 30% continued
to engage in recurrent binge eating and purging behaviors. Subsequent
analysis of this data set concluded that although menstrual irregularities
were common at follow-up, the baseline presence of illness appeared
to have little impact on these patients' later ability
to achieve pregnancy (571). The results of this follow-up were interpreted
to indicate that treatments with demonstrated efficacy for short-term
outcome appeared to improve psychosocial functioning at
long-term outcome among women with bulimia nervosa (572). A review
of other literature in this area concluded that no consistent evidence
exists to support the idea that early intervention implies a better
long-term outcome (573).
A variety of factors have been examined as possible predictors
of outcome. The available literature suggests that outcomes for
patients with illness onset in adolescence are better than for those
with later onsets (556). Although the data are highly variable,
evidence suggests that comorbidity with OCD may be associated with
a longer duration of illness (574) and that comorbidity with personality
disorders may alter the natural course of illness (575). Overevaluation
of shape and weight and a history of childhood obesity may be negative predictor
factors (576), whereas a history of substance use disorders at intake
or misuse of laxatives during the follow-up period may predict suicide
attempts (577). The overall conclusion is that considerable variability
occurs in the natural course of this illness, with persistence of
symptoms at long-term follow-up in a significant subgroup of patients.
EDNOS is a commonly used diagnosis, being given to >50% of
patients with eating disorders who present to outpatient treatment
settings (263). EDNOS variants consisting of mixtures of anorexia
and bulimia nervosa symptoms appear to be particularly common among
adolescents. This heterogeneous group of patients consists largely
of subsyndromal cases of anorexia or bulimia nervosa (e.g., those
who fail to meet one criterion, such as not having 3 months of amenorrhea
or having fewer binge eating episodes per week than required for
a strictly defined diagnosis) as well as the substantial group of
patients with binge eating disorder.
Because the diagnosis of EDNOS includes individuals with
diverse eating disorder presentations, it is predictable that the
course of EDNOS will be highly variable. Indeed, an early study
of an unselected EDNOS population found a varied course of illness
and low rate of recovery over 30 months (267). In addition, in patients
with a variety of eating disorders who were followed over time,
it appears that considerable movement occurred from one eating disorder
diagnostic category to another, including EDNOS (263).
Binge eating disorder occurs in about 2% of community
cohorts and is common among patients seeking treatment for obesity
at hospital-affiliated weight programs (1.3%–30.1% prevalence),
with studies using more rigorous interview-based measures typically
reporting lower rates (578, 579). About 33% of these patients
are male. Binge eating disorder typically begins in adolescence
(at least by retrospective recall) or early adulthood and occurs more
frequently in adults than in adolescents, but patients generally
do not present for treatment until adulthood. (580). A well-established
concomitant feature of binge eating disorder is that obese individuals
who binge eat are more likely than those who do not binge eat to
display comorbid axis I psychopathology, particularly major depressive
disorder, with lifetime rates of 46%–58% (313,
334, 335, 337, 581).
Important observations have been made regarding the course
of binge eating disorder. A 5-year community study of young women
with binge eating disorder reported that a majority of the women
had recovered spontaneously by 5-year follow-up. However, the age
of participants in this study was considerably younger than that
of most patients presenting for binge eating disorder treatment,
making the generalizability of these findings uncertain (567). Another
community study that followed patients over a 6-month period reported
that about half of patients remaining in the study continued to
meet binge eating disorder criteria, whereas symptoms of the other
half partially remitted (567, 582). A 6-year study (583) that followed
intensively treated binge eating disorder patients found that approximately
57% had a good outcome, 35% an intermediate outcome,
and 6% a poor outcome; 1% of the patients had
died. Although shorter-term remission is not necessarily maintained
on a longer-term basis, clinical samples and shorter-term studies
of binge eating disorder treatment have often reported high rates
of response to minimal interventions (e.g., placebo) (584). Taken
together, these lines of evidence suggest that the course of binge
eating disorder is rather unstable over time. Treatment appears
to be associated with a fairly positive long-term response, but
it is difficult to know how many patients might have recovered without specific
The presence of binge eating may be predictive of weight gain
over time. The aforementioned study of Fairburn et al. (567) reported
that the prevalence of obesity in that group of patients had nearly
doubled by the end of the follow-up period. Follow-up data from
several treatment studies (271, 272, 585, 586) suggest that the
persistence of binge eating may be associated with weight gain over
Family and twin studies suggest a strong genetic component
in the development of anorexia and bulimia nervosa (587–589),
but the specifics of exactly what vulnerabilities are transferred
and the mechanisms whereby they contribute to the pathogenesis of
eating disorders need to be identified. The evidence also suggests
that anorexia and bulimia nervosa may share genetic transmission
with anxiety disorders and major depression (590, 591).
Further investigation of genetic contributions to vulnerability
for eating disorders has occurred with two types of analyses: linkage
studies and association studies for polymorphisms of specific genes.
Evidence from a large international, multisite study suggests the presence
of an anorexia nervosa susceptibility locus on chromosome 1p (592)
and a susceptibility locus for bulimia nervosa on chromosome 10p
(593). In affected sibling pairs who ranked high for "drive for
thinness" and "obsessionality" traits,
suggestive linkages were found on chromosomes 1, 2, and 13 (594).
Association studies for polymorphisms of specific genes with specific
behavioral covariates have produced many contradictory findings.
For example, four studies were positive for a polymorphism of –1438 G/A in the
promoter 5HT2A gene, and three
studies were negative for this polymorphism (reviewed
by Hinney et al. [595]). A meta-analysis of all
the association studies of the 5HT2A gene
in anorexia nervosa showed a persistent significant effect of the –1438 allele (596).
Preliminary evidence suggests that the norepinephrine transporter
gene (NET) and monoamine
oxidase A gene (MAOA) contribute
to the increased risk for anorexia nervosa, restricting type. A
serotonin transporter gene (SERT),
known to be associated with anxiety, is preferentially transmitted
to children with anorexia nervosa when the more active MAOA variant
is also transmitted (597). The findings regarding these three genes
and NET) in relation to susceptibility
to anorexia nervosa require replication. Other studies suggest significant
associations between anorexia nervosa and the serotonin gene HTR1D and
the opioid gene OPRD1 (598).


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The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This biography shows the extent to which Smith's great works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of one of the most ambitious projects of the Euruopean Enlightenment, a grand "Science of Man" that would encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smith's death in 1790.Nick Phillipson reconstructs Smith's intellectual ancestry and shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume.
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Bibliography from the session on Systems Thinking led by Jean Tabaka and Bill Wake (email@example.com), at Agile 2009, August, 2009. We've found these books useful and interesting and hope you do too. Banyai, Istvan. Zoom. Puffin, 1998. ISBN 0140557741. … Continue reading
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The so-called "internet of things" enabled by RFID systems conceptually "make[s] it possible for computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly."4 Such a vision holds tremendous promise in contexts such as inventory management and shipping and handling, as well as in hospital care, education, and safety monitoring. But, clearly, the promise is burdened by equally tremendous possibilities for misuse. The RFID Position Statement mentioned above (see footnote 2) lists five potential threats to privacy and civil liberties from the large-scale deployment of RFID technologies: hidden placement of tags, unique identifiers for all objects, massive data aggregation, hidden readers, and individual tracking and profiling.
As described previously, "Big Brother" scenarios in which commercial interests or government can track an individual's every purchase and move by compiling vast quantities of minute data from electronic product codes within RFID tags are some time away from being realized. But possibilities for immediate misuse remain. Workshop participants argued that addressing social, ethical, legal, and cultural concerns is crucial for RFID technologies at every stage, including technological design and the development of industry standards, policy and regulation, and specific applications. Developing policy to incorporate social norms in emerging technologies is often a discouragingly long process in an industry that seems to move at lightning speed, almost always ahead of the policy discussions as well as ahead of the purview of government regulators. For that reason, this chapter on the societal and privacy concerns associated with RFID technologies necessarily takes a long view of the technology and its potential implications.
Particularly in the realms of social norms, ethics, and policy, RFID technologies confound simple discussion in a number of ways. First, the differences in the speed at which policy and technology develop forces policy into what would seem to be the realm of science fiction. If policy discussions are forced to make assumptions about future technological developments, policy may fail to fit appropriately with societal interests as they evolve along with the technology. Second, because of what is often referred to as "function creep," technologies designed for one task are often adapted to accomplish another. Thus the stated purpose of any new system will be an incomplete description of that system's eventual use. Third, two primary means exist for incorporating social goals (be they privacy, security, manageability, reliability, or usability) into a system. The two means are regulation and design. Each is very differently motivated into action. Fourth and finally, thus far the most articulate discussion of social goals related to RFID technologies centers on notions of privacy. Privacy, however, is not universally defined, nor is it a flexible enough concept to encompass all of the issues that must be taken into consideration as RFID-incorporating systems become prevalent.5 And, of course, privacy is far from a homogeneous or single-dimension concept.6 Not only must the complexity of privacy as a concept be recognized, but other (sometimes related) concerns should be explicitly articulated as well.
Now is a good time for a thoughtful consideration of societal, cultural, and ethical issues related to RFID systems. A brief workshop cannot do justice to the complexity of all these
"The Internet of Things" was the title of a Forbes article in March of 2002 by Chana R. Schoenberger <http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0318/092.html>. Accessed December 14, 2004. (The quote is taken from <http://archive.epcglobalinc.org/aboutthecenter.asp>, accessed December 14, 2004.) The AutoID center has been incorporated into EPCglobal, and archives of the former organization should be available at <http://www.epcglobalinc.org/>, accessed December 14, 2004.
One thing that makes "privacy" particularly challenging is that it has a weak feedback loop—it is not always immediately obvious when privacy has been affected or violated.
Individual thresholds vary with respect to privacy—what one person might consider deeply private, another might casually disclose. Moreover, some argue that privacy encompasses more than merely the concealment or revelation of information, also being connected to autonomy and trust. Privacy is also deeply tied to context—behavior in one circumstance may be considered much more acceptable from a privacy standpoint than that same behavior in another situation.


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Stephanie Rice was crying when she apologized on television, but was probably crying even more when she had to hand back the keys of her complimentary Jaguar XF. The Australian triple-gold-medalist swimmer was apologizing for ostensibly off-hand remarks made via Twitter following an international rugby competition, remarks that have reportedly cost her a sponsorship deal with the British automaker's Australian arm.
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This Washington, D.C. hotel is about 4 blocks from Nationals Park baseball stadium. The hotel offers a seasonal outdoor pool, an on-site restaurant and free Wi-Fi.
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This Washington, D.C. hotel features a restaurant and rooms with free Wi-Fi. It is adjacent to the University of the District of Columbia and one block from a Metro station.
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Close to metro
Did not give me the room type I reserved.
Location and facilities was great
location, parking, dinning
Love proximity to metro
Noisy on weekend with dubious characters in front of hotel- didn't feel safe
It was a very modern new hotel with spacious rooms.
We were given a confusing address and also confusing name of hotel, which made it a problem for the taxi.
House keepers did very good job. Hotel was very clean.
Limited hours on resturants being open didn't like. Menu very limited.
The first morning at this hotel I wake up with hives all around my body. There were bedbugs bites. I have been in lots of hotels during this and other trips, most of them economic ones. It is the first time I have such a problem. I complained with the hotel's manager who washed his hands off. Very bad experience in an expensive Marriot hotel.
Check-in staff was friendly and accommodating. The beds were so comfy and the room and bathroom were clean. I have no complaints at all. Great weekend spent in D.C.
The neighborhood is a great up and coming location but the homeless people on the street is a bit of an issue.
Free Wifi through-out the hotel
No close restuarants in close proximity! We requested a cab to be there the next day by a certain time with the valet, No cab waiting. almost missed the train home. Staff was not knowledgeable on giving directions as well.
had to pay extra for breakfast.
Didn't realize we would get hit with a $25 a day tax. That sucks!
room space, neighborhood, location: very close to a metro station (NoMa)
Good looking room, great bathroom
Good joice if travelling by train. Metro station close by. 1 stop to Union Station.
Close proximity to metro station (50 metres) and only 1 stop to Union Station. Fantastic bistro facilities for good, healthy and well priced meals.
Being Australian we missed a kettle to make a cup of tea.
Really nice play to stay, large room, comfy beds. A bit far from everything, but taxi would take you to the National Mall area for more less 10$. recommended.
A bit slow internet.
the location was very good and convinient, easy access to the transportation, good options of places to go eat in a budget, like 7eleven/au and bon pain, starbucks at the site
not about the hotel but about the whole Washington DC area in the sidewalks a lot of homeless or people asking money everywhere give a unsafe feelling with the amount of security in the area, and some of the security in the museums were very unpolite and rude directing people, they need improve polite manner like Disney does
Very close to union station and New York Ave Metro. Friendly staff
Not much option for food in the hotel.
Very white linen, comfortable sleep, close to union station 15 mn walking distance and few steps to metro station. Good connection, supermarket close as well as some restaurants. Go green concept.
Value for money, empty bar, old desk chair in the room, check in on the 2nd floor, some of the guests were noisy and screaming at night.
Comfortable and clean hotel.
The fact that the lobby is not on the ground floor. For security reasons this is a concern. Lack of restaurants in the area.
It was extremely handy to have the Metro train entrance right next door to the Hotel. We used it most every day for our travels to DC.
The hotel is right on the edge of what I would consider questionable neighborhoods. There were beggars outside the hotel and Metro every day. Really took away from the nice qualities of the hotel.
closeness to subway entrance; friendliness of employees; computers to use in lobby; walking distance/5 minutes to inexpensive restaurants and grocery store;
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The location was excellent. We were visiting friends who lived nearby. The hotel was right next to an Au Bon Pain restaurant and the Metro.
The charge for a car was $33 plus tax a day. That ended up adding almost $80 to our stay. So it therefore makes the cost of the hotel much more than when booked.
Free wifi, breakfast included option was great value! Staff helpful Nice bar/ restaurant 10 min easy walk to union station Metro station next door Good local shops
Air con was pathetic! Neighbourhood at night not great but not a problem Parking- park at the nearby car parks for better value
This hotel was 3 buildings from the subway. The subway system was so easy to maneuver. Staff was so helpful and friendly. We loved the onsite Bistro. Great breakfast included in price. It was not a continental breakfast, it was a great hot breakfast and the dinner menu was surprising. We really enjoyed the Crab cake and rib dinner we had.
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F5 load balancers have excellent functionality and are easy to integrate. I find the url rewriting / scripting to be
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Middlebury's program in Italy presupposes the student's general academic competence and sufficient ability in written and spoken Italian. Our program emphasizes acquisition of language skills and intellectual development through a curriculum of linguistic, literary, and cultural study exclusively in Italian.We strongly urge all students to enroll in the program for the full academic year: compared to a shorter stay, the linguistic, academic, and personal benefits of a ten-month stay are incalculable.
Students choosing to study in Ferrara will take all of their classes at the Università degli Studi di Ferrara alongside Italian students. Single-semester students will take a course at the Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo that focuses on writing for academic purposes, and attend the university for the remainder of their courses. Year-long students will enroll exclusively in university courses only during their second semester. They select their courses from a wide variety of disciplines including: Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, History, Law [Politics], Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, and Physics.
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Went to charge my Minaska Yesterday (I usually charge it overnight). This morning I went to get it and found neither the charger or batteries warm to the touch (usually they ARE warm). Upon inspection, the charger or batteries appear to be working. Hopefully the internals arean't shot as well. I have been communicationg with Steve at Minaska via email throughout the day. He is having me ship the caller to him so they can fix it.I have to say his responses were VERY fast and I have heard lately that there Customer service/repairs are very fast. I'm kinda bummed cause I was planning on going calling Friday. I MAY still go and just take my mouth calls, but I don't know. I've never used them other than blowing a couple horrible sounds when I first got them. lolAnyway, I'll keep you guys up to date on the service and turnaround time.
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Posted 11 October 2009 - 05:58 PM
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Posted 11 October 2009 - 07:01 PM
I went out a few weeks ago with a friend, and his e-caller was dead from the start of the first stand. Pulled out the hand call and went at it. Four minutes later had two dogs coming in and the closest one was at 12 feet. Shotgun...BOOM..dog down. I say get out there with the hand call.
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Posted 11 October 2009 - 11:19 PM
The best advice ever given to me was make it sound as if you yourself were dying. You'll be fine. I can promise this though, your odds of calling one in (even if you don't think it sounds that good) are 100% better than if you stay home and don't go! Sometimes just being lucky, right spot at right time, is as effective as being good. Can't kill em from the computer screen!
Posted 13 October 2009 - 05:51 PM
Good luck with your Minaska. I havent had any issues with my Foxpro, but from what I have heard their customer service is spot on too. Take them Hand calls out and sing to Em !
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that require every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Posted 13 October 2009 - 07:28 PM
Meh, just found out I have to work on Friday, plus the PO was closed Yesterday. :(Hopefully I will get the Minaska back next week. If I get a chance to go out though, I'm going and taking my hand calls.
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Posted 13 October 2009 - 09:45 PM
Good luck with your caller.Two words: Fox and Pro!
Posted 14 October 2009 - 05:57 AM
lol Actually this little minaska has been pretty good for what I paid. If I had it to do over, I would go with Foxpro. I could easily see myself using the 16 sound Foxpro. The Minaska has 100 sounds, but sometimes it gets confusing with too many sounds. I think like 6 sounds would suit me just fine.
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Posted By Elizabeth Nolan Brown On October 12, 2011 @ 8:29 am In Bulletin Today | Comments Disabled
[1]New Focus At New Hampshire Debate: If the opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference-well, Mitt Romney really, really opposite-of-loved Rick Perry last night. For weeks, the two men have been very-publicly tangling over Social Security [2], health care and who's better at adhering to conservative principles. At last night's Republican presidential debate [3], however, Romney hardly paid Perry any mind, instead focusing on defending the healthcare plan he enacted as governor of Massachusetts and the 2008 bank bailouts.
The Wall Street rescue package "was designed to keep not just a collapse of individual banking institutions, but to keep the entire currency of the country worth something," said Romney.
Everyone is declaring Romney the 'winner' of last night's debate (whether it's because Romney did so well or because the other hopefuls have been doing so poorly is more contested). "Another sterling debate performance from Romney, who once again looked far more presidential than anyone else onstage," writes CBS' Brian Montopoli [4]. "Romney emerges unscathed. Again," notes Politico [5]. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who declined to run for the nomination last week, officially endorsed Romney Tuesday afternoon.
With Christie and Sarah Palin out of the running, what voters saw last night in terms of GOP 2012 presidential candidates [6]-Perry, Romney, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum-is more or less what they get. While none of the non-Romney candidates did particularly poorly last night, the consensus seems to be that none of them stood out, either, with the exception of former Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain (Rick Perry appeared toned down and received little attention). Cain-who won a Florida Republican straw poll late last month [7]-touted his 9-9-9 flat tax plan, which would entirely throw out the current tax code and replace it with a 9 percent income tax, a 9 percent corporate tax and a 9 percent federal sales tax. Cain defended the plan vigorously ("After this debate, it's fair to say this plan would be his answer to questions about trout fishing," John Dickerson at Slate writes [8]), despite his opponents' contentions that the plan is simplistic or unrealistic.
I think it's a catchy phrase. In fact, I thought it was a price of a pizza when I first heard about it," Huntsman joked.
Bachmann, a tax lawyer by profession, told Cain, "when you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn it upside down, I think the devil's in the details."
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[2] been very-publicly tangling over Social Security: http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/news-09-2011/rick-perry-social-security.html
[3] last night's Republican presidential debate: http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/news-10-2011/gop-debate-economy.html
[4] writes CBS' Brian Montopoli: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20118966-503544.html
[5] notes Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65723_Page2.html
[6] GOP 2012 presidential candidates: http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-09-2011/republican-presidential-candidates-2012.html
[7] who won a Florida Republican straw poll late last month: http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/news-09-2011/us--republicans-2012-cain.html
[8] John Dickerson at Slate writes: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/10/lgop_new_hampshire_debate_mitt_romney_shows_he_s_still_the_man_t.html
[9] High daily doses of Vitamin E could lead to an increased risk of prostate cancer: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/oct/12/high-doses-vitamin-e-linked-increased-risk-prostat/
[10] could modify the genes linked to heart disease: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fruits-vegetables-change-gene-linked-heart-disease/story?id=14713782
[11] ginger could reduce colon inflammation: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/12/daily-ginger-dose-may-reduce-risk-colorectal-cancer/
[12] looking toward subprime borrowers once again: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111011-711998.html
[13] reasons to be thankful for your 401(k): http://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartrobertson/2011/10/11/five-reasons-to-be-thankful-for-your-401k/
[14] New York Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/politics/romney_endorsement_christie_spotlight_I9Uuyj1hzWD9CSqpP6nl5N
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- hitachino Jun 10, 2007 02:01 PM
anyone been? advice? do they still serve brunches?
it looks like an interesting place to add onto our indy visit and isn't far from where we're staying.
re: Devotay
thank you! i hope they still do a brunch - i suppose it's gonna be me not lazily relying on the internet and actually calling them ;0)
it's always great to get tips from locals instead of having to rely on the actual business' recs.
re: hitachino
They always come to our local Farmers' Market (in Bloomington), and offer lots of samples. I don't know what they're currently doing on their home turf, however. I suspect that tomorrow (when she's finished with her local Slow Food commitment), myplateoryours will post on this and she will have the definitve answer.
Brunch during the winter months and dinner buffet Friday nights on the deck. They do have a lunch menu - it's not very extensive, but I do love their cheese appetizer platter - mmmmm
You should definitely go. It's a great place.
their website with all of the pertinent details.
Gosh, and here I am -- how sad to be so predictable. :)
Traders Point is a wonderful place -- and they are even doing Saturday dinners now in the Cafe, 6-9:00. Brunch is just in the winter, I think, but they do lunch on Sat.and Sun. Their cheeses/ice creams/grassfed beef and oh-my-God their chocolate milk are all spectacular. GO!
I've been for lunch on a weekday and had some wonderful lentil soup. We also purchased some yogurt in glass bottles - it was delicious.
I need to get back to try their ice cream. I couldn't stay long, but it looks like an interesting place to spend a couple of hours. Beautiful setting.
Sorry to detour a bit, but my son is a student at Rose in Terre Haute, and interesting chow is a family passion, both for eating out or cooking in. You are obviously a locally-informed group. If you have any thoughts on where to go or what to seek out west of Indianapolis I would greatly appreciate it! We've read and benefited from past threads, but I agree with hitachino that current and local are invaluable!
re: chowfamily
Can't really help you as far west as Terre Haute but I will recommend Charbonos in Avon as a nice steakhouse. I like the Mayberry Cafe in Brownsburg. But I don't really get much farther west.
re: bonmann
Thanks so much for your recommendations! I will get out my map and check them out.
After reading this post, we decided to give it a try for dinner this past Saturday when we came to town for the Formula 1 race.
We had a great time and really enjoyed everything. This is not high gourmet dining, but basic restaurant fare, done in a fine and organic fashion.
A nice warm summer night with lots of daylight made the barn loft truly welcoming and charming.
As for the food, we had the mixed greens salad with balsamic vinaigrette and a Thai-flavored corn bisque.
For the mains, we had a margherita pizza and the veal marsala. The pizza was on a nice medium thick crust with nice cheese and basil.
The veal was incredibly creamy and tender. I'm hoping because they try to get organic ingredients that this veal was humanely raised. The marsala sauce was nicely flavored. The side of angel hair pasta had a very nice texture.
For dessert, we both had a plate of ice cream; vanilla and blackberry; and chocolate and strawberry. Very good ice cream. Not super duper rich, but nicely flavored.
Also had a glass of milk to drink with the meal. Nice and rich. Their brochure says that because the milk is not homogenized, it's better for those who are lactose intolerant. I can vouch for that, with my mild form of intolerance.
All the dishes were good executions of relatively simple concepts. The corn bisque had the most complex flavors, with a bit of curry, basil, and lemongrass flavoring the corn bisque. They try to use completely organic ingredients sourced mostly locally.
The only dish we didn't get to try that I was curious about was the cheese plate. They offer a fromage blanc and a fromage de la terre (their artisan style cheese).
Presentation is simple. White linen tablecloths and flowers in milk bottles. Service is very friendly.
The dining room is in the converted hayloft of the farmhouse. The exposed wood beams and lofty roof make a perfect setting for the smartly designed stainless steel dairy bar and the cheese aging room.
After dinner, we wandered around the grounds where you could see the cows grazing and the chickens roaming the field around a small coop.
If you're interested in trying their products, they had a map showing where their products are stocked. In Indianapolis, local supermarkets such as Marsh carry their goods, while it looks like their goods go as far as the Whole Foods in Philadelphia. Looks like they've hooked up with much of the Whole Foods network from St Louis to Minneapolis to Chicago all the way through to Philly.
www.traderspointcreamery.com for hours as well as the latest menu.
NW part of the Indy metro area .
re: tex888
I do not know this, but Traders Point Creamery sells grass finished beef and I would assume if they were serving veal that it was their own or from another local farm like Swiss connection, in which case it was free-range and organic. Glad to hear it was so good. I haven't been up to the Saturday night dinner -- maybe next week!
They DO serve brunch in the summer months, on Sundays. Their crepes are fantastic, their eggs are to die for (and I'm not really a big egg eater). Waffles are good--but I'd recommend getting something with eggs or milk or something that comes fresh from their farm.
They have a pizza night on Wednesdays--fresh cheese, herbs and meats.
Even for those who aren't so into the organic thing or Slow Food, it's FANTASTIC.
The cheese plate is wonderful. Really unique, fresh cheeses with fabulous crackers. I know this sounds ridiculous, but they have the BEST cottage cheese!!!
Of course, you won't want to miss the milkshakes. (My favorite is the caramel--they can make it with white milk or chocolate--so yummy.)
If you have kids (and even if you don't), you can walk around the farm afterwards. They often have calves to pet and roosters that will crow at you. They have really beautiful areas to sit and drink a milkshake and enjoy the scenery.
I haven't been to the farmer's market, but I hear it has great offerings.
I'd check their website for details--reservations are often available, but I've found you don't really need one most of the time. www.traderspointcreamery.com


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