Designed to Move: The Science-Backed Program to Fight Sitting Disease and Enjoy Lifelong Health - Softcover

Vernikos, Dr. Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610352718 ISBN 13: 9781610352710

Publisher: Quill Driver Books, 2016

Synopsis

A movement plan to fight sitting disease and premature aging

Science has proven that sitting too much is bad for your health, but what can you do about it if you're stuck at your desk all day? "Designed to Move" gives deskbound professionals a practical, easy-to-follow movement plan to fight the debilitating and life-shortening effects of sitting disease.  Dr. Joan Vernikos, former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division, draws on decades of scientific research on astronauts to show readers how to use gravity-based movement to counteract the effects of prolonged sitting and maintain lifelong good health.

Written for everyone who spends most of their lives sitting in chairs, "Designed to Move" provides readers with a science-backed health program that helps people stay healthy while at work. Expanding upon her groundbreaking previous book, "Sitting Kills, Moving Heals," Dr. Vernikos shows how developing simple new lifestyle habits at the office can reverse the symptoms of sitting disease and even aging itself, and lead to a life of bountiful health.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Vernikos, Ph.D., is a pioneering medical research scientist who has conducted seminal studies in space medicine, inactivity physiology, stress and healthy aging. In 1964 she began working as a researcher at the NASA Ames Research center, where she spearheaded groundbreaking medical studies on the effects of weightlessness. Vernikos served as Life Sciences Director at the NASA Ames Research Center from 1986 to 1993 and Director of the Life Sciences Division at NASA headquarters from 1993 to 2000. Vernikos is also a prolific journalist and science writer. She has written about space, defense and foreign affairs, medicine, health, stress, aging and physical fitness for numerous scientific, academic and popular publications, including Defense & Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Popular Science, Muscle and Fitness, and Gerontology. Vernikos has written four previous books: Inactivity: Physiological Effects (1987, co-written with Harold Sandler); The G-Connection: Harness Gravity and Reverse Aging (2004); Stress Fitness for Seniors (2009); and Sitting Kills, Moving Heals (2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Quill Driver Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610352718
• ISBN 13: 9781610352710
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128