Human nature often leads us to cheat. Cheat literally means to "fall away from something." Like when everyone is on a pathway and someone takes a side trail trying to get ahead of the others.

In physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states what entropy is. If I may interpret it, this law says that : "energy lost from a closed system breaks down the system," and "the older the system the more rapid the breakdown." Basically the Law states that in nature entropy is the phenomenon of irreversibility. Our body is a closed system. From birth on we are in a declining health spiral, slowing it down is our best shot at applying our thinking wisely.

"Gee if only I'd have known I'd live this long I'd have taken better care of myself, ha, ha, ha." And "Ha, ha, ha" back at you.

Reversing entropy just doesn't happen. The best we may expect in life is to get an early start on slowing down loss of health, our entropy, and then continuously pursue that task.

With our health we often use dubious methods in support of it which may only appear to help us on our way. As we "fall away" from health following inappropriate lifestyles we may suddenly wake up and become desperate for "loss of health avoidance" and then cheat. Taking any and all desperate paths to get what we want back again, our health. The silly and inappropriate methods can be costly to our wallet and ususally fail to help our health at all.

We can easily lose our health, waking up too late, just like in many human relationships, and finding ourselves falling away. Frequently risking the relationship we have with others, or with our health for some unrealistic lofty goal, doesn't cut it.

Humans often measure position in life by their relating themselves to others. We are pack animals. We place and order ourselves mentally and psychologically in comparison to others around us. And we may have unrealistically risen up these others onto a mental pedestal, especially having just met them. Then we may turnaround and see ourselves in a hole-full-of-loss by comparison. Mistakenly looking up at others and saying, "How could I possibly be anything like them?" shakes our confidence. Frequently that is when the only way to catch up seems to be by cheating.

Humans like many other animals are greedy and will do almost anything for reward. In our desire for self satisfaction we are often hyper-motivated and desperate for getting what we want. Pain and pleasure motivate us and we usually choose pleasure even at the expense of something cherished like our relationship or like our long-term health. Short term gain for long-term pain ensues.

Loss of health may not be in one's mind's eye when we cheat a little by our lifestyle, nor may be the loss of a cherished relationship. But know as we behave poorly, to get that quick pleasure, that one day there will be a calling upon us when we must face the losses initially chosen to be avoided.

Health is usually taken for granted and viewed by most of us as a given, an ongoing thing that is stable. Looking at ourselves and not caring about the sway back or the rounding uneven shoulders, the tilted head, or a limping gait is denial of the need to intervene. When noticed or commented on by another we may just go out and buy a new set of clothes to make those things go away, to cover us up, to keep our eyes off of what is real. Or maybe we will buy jewellery or a new pair of shoes to make us "feel better." That is cheating and it enables us to keep being cheated. And the marketing and sales people love it when we behave narcissistically.

To make a good first impression, "look at your posture, others do." And remember the others are going to use their impression of us to place themselves, to order themselves and set priority in the pack.

Poor posture is telling. It tells of our "falling away," our being cheated out of our health and letting it happen. Sure a poke in the belly or ribs will call attention to the problem but only momentarily. We soon automatically go back into our slide-away-from-health, our poor posture, and back to showing the fact we are unhealthy.

So trying to hide ill health is common in the natural realm of cheating ourselves. Drugs and other non healthy items are readily used to hide pain in our outrageously selfish and greedy society. We willingly throw all kinds of money on all kinds of foolish and dangerous items to get ourselves feeling good, or to look better for awhile.

But the fact is our health is an ongoing undulating and fluctuating item. It is alive and pulsing and we don't do well if we cheat for it. We get caught every time and lose dearly except for when we prevent rapid loss of health by long-term appropriate life-styles and proper bodily management.

When our body is literally falling and stooping over and we see it and don't take heed of it we are cheating and getting cheated. It is the antithesis of self help, of getting healthy. It is greed itself to not look after ourselves, to not maintain ourselves for the sake of our species.

We accelerate our loss of health by not responding to the signals of desperation that our body is screaming out to our deaf ears and boldly signing, by falling away from gravity, to our blind eyes. But all eyes are not blind and help is available.

Seeing ourselves in a pit of loss and uselessly cheating, like avoiding confrontation of the hard work necessary to recapture health, we are willingly and unwittingly letting the burdens of gravity rapidly grind us down. Gravity is a relentless and unforgiving task master. Know that all must answer to Caesar and ours is gravity. If we don't build precisely our "healthy Roman road," our spine, with a straight back and body, we are continually signing poor health with our subluxated frame.

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