Essential: Essays by The Minimalists

If you want to be in great shape, avoid preventable illness, look good naked—all that jazz, you have to put your body under stress and control your eating.

Appropriate nutrition refers to managing what you put in your body, how much you eat, and realizing what foods bring you

In virtually every instance, clarity about what is essential fuels us with the strength to say no to the non-essentials.

an attempt to reduce the things that aren’t essential so we can appreciate the things that really are precious to us.

Mange plus sainement. Un point de départ facile qui produit de bons résultats sans trop se prendre la tête consiste simplement à supprimer les aliments suivants : sodas, fast-food, desserts et bonbons.

The key to accomplishing that is to ruthlessly expunge the inessential from our lives. What vanity obligates us to do, what greed signs us up for, what ill discipline adds to our plate, what a lack of