Transcription of Sitting Kills Moving Heals - Healthline
1 KillsMoving HealsJoan Vernikos, PhDFormer Director of Life Sciences NASAF riday, March 23, 2012 Health Sciences Building Room 2402:00 3:30 Director of Life Sciences at NASA, Joan Vernikos is author, health coach, consultant and sought-after motivational speaker on the tangible health and economic benefits to individuals and organizations of resetting your health for life, living healthy and healthy aging. A pharmacologist from the University of London, her research, and publications on the management of stress, and how spaceflight and earth s gravity affect men and women have been recognized with numerous awards. She holds three patents. A member of the International Academy of Astronautics, she served on the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences, is space correspondent for Defense & Foreign Affairs.
2 Her books include award-winning The G-Connection: Harness Gravity and Reverse Aging, (2004), Stress Fitness for Seniors (2009) and Sitting Kills , Moving Heals : How Simple Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, and Early Death and Exercise Alone Won t (2011).For more information, contact: Aleksandra Zecevic, PhD SIGNING 1:30 2 3:30 4 HSB 240
