Personal habits of eating, drinking, dressing, and working directly influence health, and suffering follows the disregard of natural law rather than divine punishment.
Draft interpretation · MH 234.2
Original passage
The greater number, however, suffer because of their own wrong course of action. They disregard the principles of health by their habits of eating, drinking, dressing, and working. Their transgression of nature's laws produces the sure result; and when sickness comes upon them, many do not credit their suffering to the true cause, but murmur against God because of their afflictions. But God is not responsible for the suffering that follows disregard of natural law.
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