Movement is key to being healthy says former NASA researcher

CALGARY — Staying healthy can be as simple as standing up. That was the message from Dr. Joan Vernikos, the former director of life sciences at NASA, during two talks at Fitterfirst in Calgary this week. Vernikos has spent decades researching how living in micro-gravity can be detrimental to the health of astronauts, and says there are parallels to life on Earth. Pushing against gravity – which includes doing something as simple as standing up — every 30 minutes or so is necess