How to Beat Cancer: 7 Easy Ways to Lower Your Risk

This is part one in a three-part series on how you can fight cancer, live greener and live longer.

A new book, Anticancer: A New Way of Life, comes out Sept. 8th. It sounds sort of like a scary movie from the '70's, like The Omen, and the cancer part alone might be enough to put me off buying the book, since I ain't got it...(as far as my last mammogram says anyway). What I mean is, I normally would not buy a book on cancer, or even on avoiding cancer, because, well I just don't plan on getting it. But many of us will. In fact 25% of us in the US will die from cancer.

But this book is not just for people with cancer, or about avoiding cancer

In this first of a 3 part series, Dr. David Servan-Schreiber

Do you have an Anticancer lifestyle? Protect Yourself!

Avoid the Following Common Household Products

- Percholoeethylene/Tetrachloro-ethylene, found in dry cleaning. Garments should be aired out for several hours before wearing.

- Cleaning products such as liquid detergents, disinfectants, and toilet bowl sanitizers that contain alkylphenols (nonoxynol, octoxynol, nonylphenol, actylphenol)

- Deodorants and antiperspirants containing aluminum.

- Cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, gels, hair color, nail polish, perfumes and sunscreen containing estrogens or placental products, or those with parabens or phthalttes.

- Chemical household pesticides and insecticides.

- Heating foods or liquids in plastic containers made with PVCs, polystyrene, or Styrofoam.

- Preparing food in scratched Teflon pans.

In the next segment of this series the doctor we'll have an exclusive interview with Dr. Servan-Schreiber and hear his amazing story. Be healthy!

Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert. She's the founder of Green Babies 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.