{"id":591,"date":"2012-12-10T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2012-12-10T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:15:12","slug":"academy-action-alert-avert-sequestration-before-december-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/academy-action-alert-avert-sequestration-before-december-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Action Alert:  Avert Sequestration before December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Right now, the United States Congress only has until\u00a0December 31st to act before Sequestration cuts\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>billions<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>from Medicare reimbursements, older adult nutrition services and community food programs. \u00a0As nutrition professionals, we really need to tell Congress ASAP to avert sequestration with a balanced and fair approach that protects vital food and nutrition programs.<\/div>\n<div>The fact is that the food, nutrition and health communities have done their part to help reduce the deficit. Tell Utah&#8217;s leaders\u00a0that any deal should be a balanced and fair deal! Congress needs to know that averting sequestration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protects senior food programs<\/li>\n<li>Funds community nutrition programs that improve health and save dollars<\/li>\n<li>Protects reimbursement rates for registered dietitians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>President-elect Heather Filipowicz did her part, will you do yours?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-heather-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-602 aligncenter\" title=\"action alert -- heather (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-heather-2-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"color: #800000;\">The painless steps to protect our profession and the public:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Find your Academy ID number and password<\/li>\n<li>Follow this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/members\/actioncenter.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/<wbr>members\/actioncenter.aspx<\/wbr><\/a>\u00a0(or follow the link that may have come in an email from the Academy)<\/li>\n<li>Follow the instructions from there!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-screen-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-593 aligncenter\" title=\"action alert screen shot\" src=\"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-screen-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-screen-shot.jpg 971w, https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-screen-shot-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/action-alert-screen-shot-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Keep track of your time and let us know how long it took you on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eatrightUtah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>! \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, the United States Congress only has until\u00a0December 31st to act before Sequestration cuts\u00a0billions\u00a0from Medicare reimbursements, older adult nutrition services and community food programs. \u00a0As nutrition professionals, we really need to tell Congress ASAP to avert sequestration with a balanced and fair approach that protects vital food and nutrition programs. The fact is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-policy","tag-public-policy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}