Game over ?

Hi I am writing a very basic text adventure game, and i cannot get the game over function to work! When the health goes below zero, it goes into minuses, and ignores the function! Here is an example of what I mean, The game concists of 5000 lines of code so far, but I get no compile or link errors or warnings...

Code:

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#include <iostream>

void gameover(); // I declare the function

void level1():

int health = 100; // health is shown

int main()
{

if (health <=0) // call game over if health is equal or below zero
{
gameover();
}

level1();
return 0;
}

void level1()
{
code here
return;
}

void gameover() // gameover function
{
gameover function here

exit(0); // exit game command
return;
}

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the above is very simular to what I have done in my game, so why is main not calling gameover when the health is nothing?
I have been trying all I know and cannot get it to work,,, please help me!

Just a guess - you are checking for health before level 1 even starts. At that point health = 100, and so gameover is never going to be called.