How to Beat Cancer: The Three Essential Habits of Healthy, Cancer Fighting People.

This is the fourth article in a series about how to prevent and beat cancer by going green.

Dr. David Servan-Schreiber is a lot of things: a world renowned cancer expert, a brain researcher, a brain cancer survivor, a best selling author and a dad. He's also a pioneer at leading the charge to integrate simple lifestyle changes in a plan to help people to beat cancer—or better yet, keep it from occurring in the first place. In this exclusive interview with Planet Green, I asked the good doctor his top three strategies for keeping healthy. Here's what he had to say:

Top 3 Strategies to Get and Stay Healthy

1. Take 5 minutes every day to get in touch with the life force in you.

"This is something we don't even think twice about doing for a dog, but we so seldom make the time to do it for ourselves. Take time to: do nothing, be alone and get in touch with your own energy. From there you will find a sense of respect that will make you look at everything in your life differently. This is where it starts."

2. You Are What You Eat

"Avoid foods that are known to feed cancer: simple sugars, white flour, poor quality vegetable oils—corn oil and sunflower oil. Every day, at every meal incorporate the anticancer foods: garlic, onion, leeks, broccoli, and cauliflower.

3. Move Your Body

"Exercise 30 minutes a day six days a week. Walking to work and back. Or even walking part of it. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator. It doesn't have to be strenuous but it needs to be brisk and consistant."

Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert. She's the founder of Green Babies organic cotton baby clothes and the author of Green Babies, Sage Moms: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Baby, and the forthcoming Green Kids, Sage Families: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Family, both from Penguin NAL. Read her previous posts here. Green Babies is a registered trademark of Green Babies, Inc.