Results suggest that some professional sources of health information are deficient.
Decisions made regarding exercise, nutrition, and hormone replacement therapy are likely to have a major impact on long-term health. Risk reduction and health promotion efforts are likely to have a powerful impact on the incidence of these disease states now and as the mid-life cohort ages. However, health care providers may be focusing on the benefits of HRT while offering less information concerning risks, costs, and alternatives. This is significant for a few reasons. First, most women do not choose HRT, and for these women, information regarding alternatives, such as exercise and nutritional change, are essential.