China were paid when no-one was ill, but payment was stopped when illness occurred (Clapier-Valladon, 1990). "Health" and "beauty" are often related: in sub-Saharan Africa, women's beauty is often linked to two characteristics: the smoothness and grain of the skin and being fat, very much in contrast with the Western standard of beauty: thinness sometimes bordering sickliness (Eco, 2004). In many parts of China, in the Philippines, and in the Ivory Coast, a healthy child is often a fat one (S. Savary, personal observation, West Africa, 1980Africa, -1990. Health is a relative notion in humans depending on cultures and past experience (of poverty, of hunger, and of disease). Health is also relative over time: one is more or less healthy. This relativeness does not exist in disease: one is ill or not.Plant health is even harder to define (Döring et al., 2012). Like small children, sick plants cannot speak; they cannot point at part of their tissues where sickness might reside. One can only declare