Adam Hart wasn't always the healthy recipe guru and person that he is today. He was on the borderline of having diabetes, he was overweight and with the stress of school and a new job, he was suffering from rising panic attacks and depression.

In The Power of Food: 100 Essential Recipes for Abundant Health and Happiness by Adam Hart, he changed it all around. Hart started to ask all those hard nutrition questions and after pursuing other careers, he learned that the source of happiness and health is food.

Food was able to heal and make Adam the healthy man that he is today.

This book follows Adam in his own personal journey and mantra to getting healthy and staying there. "Food is your lifeline to waking up each morning with supercharged energy."

Hart breaks down the meaning of food and our overwhelming need to be happy.

He does this in 12 crucial steps:

Action Step 1: Calm the Storm. How to stay calm in overwhelming, stressful situations.

Action Step 2: Affirm your Greatness. Deep breathing to ease the thoughts and allow happiness to shine through.

Action Step 3: Set your Intention. Write your goals. Bullet point them and create a sense of order. If not for tomorrow, then do it for the next five years.

Action Step 4: Be with Nature. Hart began to canoe and rock climb. Take hikes and breath in the fresh, pollution free air.

Action Step 5: Pay Attention to your Intentions. Don't forget your goals. They're a constant reminder of what you want to change or do in the near future.

Action Step 6: Practice my First Ten. How do you spend the first ten minutes of everyday? This defines your thoughts and actions.

Action Step 7: Say Hello to your Grandmother. Call your grandmother and tell her that you love her. Then go and visit and see how she cooks. Connect that with your life. It's a generation of cooking.

Action Step 8: Strengthen your Vision. Create a vision board. Put a picture and a constant reminder to the things that you want and what you want to achieve.

Action Step 9: Pick your Power Foods. Buy 6 of these foods and store and freeze them so they're constantly on hand.

Action Step 10: Turn up the Love. Start cooking and creating. Cook for yourself, your family and your friends.

Action Step 11: Track your Progress. Write down your changes, your thoughts and anything else that could help someone in your shoes.

Action Step 12: Love your Food. Love what you do and love what you eat.

Too many choices in a food store can create a feeling of being overwhelmed. But take into consideration how you feel. Tired, muscle pain and cravings? Cater to the foods that will help you relinquish these bad feelings to make you feel 100 percent.

This book is separated into sections which include amazing, healthy recipes with mouth watering pictures.

All these recipes are ones that have been created by Hart and given the seal of approval by his wife and daughter.