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Losing Weight
Tired of losing at weight loss? Learn how to get your diet going by goal setting, getting a diet buddy, and finding the best diet for you. Learn about smart snacks and diet danger zones. If you’re thinking about weight loss surgery, read our pros and cons.
First Step
Discover weight loss secrets in an interview with expert James O. Hill, PhD, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado.
Struggling with extra weight and feeling frustrated? Learn about the many health benefits from losing just 10% of your body weight.
Learn why losing weight slowly is best for long-term results. Discover how to adopt new behaviors, like eating less and exercising more, to boost weight loss.
If you’ve had it with deprivation diets, then find out some easy and practical ways to get your diet going again.
Get weight loss tips on how to slim down from the nutrition doctor for the TV show The Biggest Loser, Michael Dansinger, MD.
If you’re tired of dieting alone, find a weight loss buddy. Learn how partnering for weight loss can boost morale and keep you from giving up when diet plateaus hit.
Best Diet
Learn what to look for when selecting a weight loss program. Discover how to stick with the program once you get going.
Get the real facts about fad diets, and learn some healthy weight loss strategies that really work.
If you want to be the next “biggest loser” -- and do it fast -- you have to read these rapid weight loss safety tips.
Discover how high-protein diets may help you lose weight and feel full. Find out the best sources of protein for weight loss.
Strategies
Will you be a diet success story? Assess your diet goals and plan.
Discover the top 10 habits that can help you stay on a diet and lose pounds fast.
Always hungry? Here are some new weapons for your dieting arsenal to turn off hunger pangs once and for all.
Learn 7 tips for smart snacking that can help keep you full between meals.
Think you need to give up sweets when dieting? Learn how to have your sweets and a healthy diet, too!
Discover simple ways to break food cravings from top weight loss experts.
Keep It Off
Discover five ways to keep from gaining weight once you’ve reached your dieting goal.
Learn some surprising reasons why you might be gaining weight. Find out how lack of sleep, hormones, and stress influence weight gain.
Learn how to fight the battle of the bulge with expert suggestions from Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, author of Fight Fat After Forty.
Pills & Surgery
Learn all about prescription diet pills. Find out if weight loss drugs may help you and learn about serious problems that can arise.
Discover the benefit and dangers of over-the-counter weight loss remedies.
Learn the help and the hype about weight loss and the dietary supplement hoodia.
Thinking about weight loss surgery? Learn what steps you must take before this surgery can be a reality.
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INDICATION
Vivelle-Dot is used after menopause to: reduce moderate to severe hot flashes; treat moderate to severe dryness, itching and burning in or around the vagina; help reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis (thin weak bones); and treat certain conditions in which a young woman's ovaries do not produce enough estrogens naturally. Vivelle-Dot 0.025 mg/day is only used to prevent osteoporosis from menopause. If you use Vivelle-Dot only to treat your dryness, itching, and burning in and around your vagina or if you use Vivelle-Dot only to prevent osteoporosis from menopause, talk with your healthcare professional about whether a different treatment or medicine without estrogens might be better for you.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Estrogens increase the chances of getting cancer of the uterus (womb). Report any unusual vaginal bleeding right away while you are taking estrogens. Vaginal bleeding after menopause may be a warning sign of cancer of the uterus (womb).
Do not use estrogens with or without progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, or strokes. Using estrogens with or without progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots. Using estrogens with progestins may increase your risk of dementia (decline in memory and thinking skills).
Vivelle-Dot should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding; currently have or have had certain cancers, including cancer of the breast or uterus; had a stroke or heart attack in the recent past (for example, in the past year); currently have or have had blood clots; currently have or have had liver problems; or think you may be, or know that you are, pregnant.
The most common side effects that may occur with Vivelle-Dot are headache, breast tenderness, and back pain.
You and your healthcare professional should talk regularly about whether you still need treatment with Vivelle-Dot.
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