All About Bacteria : HarperCollins India : 9789350294048 : 17 Dec 2012 : Live longer be healthier and look good naked. Harness your inner bacteria! Did you know that 90 per cent of our body's cells are bacterial? Or that the bacteria that cause meningitis live in our body all the time without troubling us at all? Or even that life as we know it on earth began because bacteria rode into our world on an asteroid? Health activist Ravi Mantha explains that in order to remain in the pinkest health we need to understand and maintain the human ecosystem - which includes looking after our bacteria. Prevent the onset of illnesses he advises rather than search for cures to diseases as Western medicine tends to do. China followed the practice of preventive medicine until a hundred years ago where doctors were paid if you were healthy and not paid if you fell sick. In the US this practice is being re-explored through the concept of 'concierge care'. Until ideas such as these become fashionable and