{"id":2320,"date":"2017-03-21T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:37:21","slug":"resources-to-explain-phit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/ihrsa\/resources-to-explain-phit\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources to Explain PHIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PassPHIT-300x307.png\" alt=\"PassPHIT\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PassPHIT-300x307.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PassPHIT-200x205.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PassPHIT.png 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PassPHIT<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOSTON, MA<\/strong> &#8211; Physical inactivity is the cause of 1 in 10 deaths worldwide. Our country is in the midst of an inactivity and obesity crisis which is costing billions of dollars, unnecessary healthcare expenditures and lives. Therefore, it is important to support efforts to stay healthy by being physically active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Health clubs help get more people active by providing a safe, supportive environment to engage the sedentary and encourage others to join together to pursue common goals and achieve a better quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, PHIT (The Personal Health Investment Today Act) would allow Americans to use pre-tax dollars to pay for health club memberships, fitness equipment, exercise videos and youth sports leagues.<\/p>\n<p>To help you explain how the PHIT Act will benefit your community, and America&#8217;s Health, IHRSA has created the following #PassPHIT resources for download:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.ihrsa.org\/phit\/Why_America_Should_Get_PHIT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Why America Should Get PHIT!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.ihrsa.org\/phit\/PHIT_Backgrounder.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Background Information on PHIT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.ihrsa.org\/phit\/PHIT_Makes_Sense.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PHIT Facts &#8211; Why Passing PHIT Makes Sense<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.ihrsa.org\/phit\/PHIT_Infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Infographic on PHIT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.ihrsa.org\/phit\/PHIT_Case_for_Exercise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Case for Exercise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hub.ihrsa.org\/phit-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\">Get PHIT! Toolkit to engange Health Club Members, Fitness Consumers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOSTON, MA<\/strong> &#8211; Physical inactivity is the cause of 1 in 10 deaths worldwide. Our country is in the midst of an inactivity and obesity crisis which is costing billions of dollars, unnecessary healthcare expenditures and lives. Therefore, it is important to support efforts to stay healthy by being physically active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Health clubs help get more people active by providing a safe, supportive environment to engage the sedentary and encourage others to join together to pursue common goals and achieve a better quality of life. If passed, PHIT (The Personal Health Investment Today Act) would allow Americans to use pre-tax dollars to pay for health club memberships, fitness equipment, exercise videos and youth sports leagues. To help you explain how the PHIT Act will benefit your community, and America&#8217;s Health, IHRSA has created the following #PassPHIT resources for download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,211,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}