72 Reasons to Be Vegan Lib/E: Why Plant-Based. Why Now.

Better sex, glowing skin, and more money...by going vegan

Did you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex? Save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer's, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Join the cool kids, like Gandhi, Tolstoy, Leonardo--and Kyrie Irving, Kat Von D, and Joaquin Phoenix. Oh, and did we mention have better sex? (It's about blood flow.)

Those are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you would be giving up, but what you would achieve.

PETE PAXTON (a pseudonym to protect his identity) is nationally recognized as the leading undercover investigator and rescuer of dogs in peril. His work has been featured by HBO, National Geographic, NPR, TIME, and more. He works with major advocacy organizations such as The Companion Animal Protection Society, Mercy for Animals, The Human Society of the United States, and many others.

GENE STONE has written, co-written, or ghost-written forty-five books (fifteen of which were national bestsellers), specializing, over the last decade, on plant-based diets and their effect on health, animal protection, and the environment. These titles include such books as Forks Over Knives, Eat for the Planet, The Engine 2 Diet (with Rip Esselstyn), How Not to Die (with Dr. Michael Greger), and Living the Farm Sanctuary Life (with Gene Baur).

Kathy Freston (kathyfreston.com) is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple health and wellness books, notably The Lean, Quantum Wellness, and Clean Protein. Her advocacy for a more healthy, sustainable, and just food system is inspired by her concern for human health as well as animal and environmental welfare. Kathy appears frequently on national TV, including Ellen, Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The Talk, Extra, and Oprah, and her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Self, W, Fitness, and The Huffington Post. Kathy enjoys hiking and biking, will travel almost anywhere for a good plant-based meal, and is obsessed with her adopted mutt, Trixie.

Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress living and working in New York City whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. She has voiced Iris on Pokémon. An Earphones Award-winning narrator, she has also directed and produced audiobooks for over six years.