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Eating Essentials
Time to make some changes in your diet? Learn all about the food guide pyramid, remarkable vitamins, the best super foods, calorie requirements, and more.
Balancing Act
The new food pyramid gives you the best choices for your busy lifestyle. Learn why getting closer to the guidelines is a good step in the right direction.
How to select whole-grain foods packed with fiber and vitamins, plus easy ways to fit more whole grains into your diet.
Discover more about vegetables -- from dark green to orange to starchy. Find out how many vegetable servings you and your family need each day.
Learn all about fruits, how many servings you need daily, and what fruits can do to boost your health.
Discover the different types of protein foods included in the meats and beans group. Find out how much you need daily from this group depending on your age, sex, and physical activity.
Learn about the different types of dairy products that are high in calcium and low in fat. Discover how many servings you and your family need each day.
Find out if you are eating healthy fats or unhealthy fats. Learn more about healthy oils and how many servings you need daily.
Learn all about the different food groups and calorie and portion sizes you and your family need each day.
Vitamins
From A to zinc, discover all the remarkable vitamins that can boost wellness and help you feel great.
Learn more about essential vitamins women need to stay well. Find out if you’re getting all the necessary vitamins for your age and stage of life.
Discover why whole foods are excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, and other key nutrients for good health.
Learn about antioxidant powerhouses and how these immune-boosting foods keep you well.
Necessary Nutrients
Is your diet be missing these seven essential nutrients? Find out now.
Try these 10 super foods that are easy to eat and packed with multiple nutrients to help you stay healthy.
Learn how much water is necessary each day for good health and how many common foods such as apples and yogurt are mostly water.
Discover all about the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and why these good fats should be added to your daily diet.
Mealtime Strategies
Discover how breakfast can make the difference in learning at school, productivity at work, and how well you stick with your diet.
Bored with brown bag lunches? Learn how to move beyond PB&J, so lunchtime becomes a gourmet feast without a lot of work.
Want yummy dinners but have no time to cook? Take a few minutes to learn about quick and easy mealtime options.
Discover seven tips for eating at work that can improve your desk-dining experience.
VIVELLE-DOT (estradiol transdermal system) IS AVAILABLE BY PRESCRPTION ONLY.
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.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Full Prescribing Information for Vivelle-Dot.
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