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This week’s Wellness Tip is HYDRATE!

Along with the benefits listed - increasing brain performance, improving the health of your heart, and helping with weight loss/management - staying hydrated can also improve your mood, decrease joint pain and improve digestion.

And that’s just the beginning!

As you age, it’s even more important to aid natural drops in thirst levels and body composition changes with increased hydration.

Eight glasses a day is an easy rule to remember and a good general target. And remember to increase hydration when you increase physical activity, are exposed to hot/humid temperatures, and when you are ill.

Cheers to hydration!

Hippocrates knew what he was talking about when he said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

Sometimes easier said than done, right?

Here are some easy hacks to set you up for success…

1. Spend a few minutes each week planning out most of your meals, then create a list and purchase ingredients ahead of time. When you’re ready to eat, you’ll have all the ingredients ready to go.. (Rather than settling for the easiest choice, which usually isn’t the healthiest.)

2. Aim to have a “colorful” plate. This usually means lots of fruits and vegetables.

3. Everything in moderation. Be conscious of your portions when serving up. Even that dessert is good for you as a “treat” – as long as you pay attention to portion size.

Check out these 10 Easy Dessert Recipes (That Are Good for You, Too) from

https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/healthy-and-easy-desserts/

Exercise not only charges your body. It charges your mind, your attitude and your mood. That’s a win all the way around!

If you’re just starting out, or getting back on track following some time off, be sure to start small. A 20-minute brisk walk may not feel like a super-charged workout, but it’s enough physical activity, if done daily, to provide you with increased health benefits such as improved memory and brain function, lower blood pressure, improved quality of sleep, and many others. Work your way up from there, making small improvements each week.

Find a time of day that works for you and stick to that routine.

Most importantly, if you miss a workout, give yourself grace. You’ll get back after it tomorrow!

We at Black Oak Pharmacy pride ourselves on being your go-to pharmacy for any kind of treatment – prescriptions, vaccines, over-the-counter medicines, to name a few. But we also believe that it’s important to partner with you, our valued customers, in your PREVENTATIVE wellness journey.

We will be posting weekly wellness tips that you can follow on your own. No pharmacy visits required.

Some of these tips will be familiar to you, and some will be new insight. Either way, we hope to be a weekly healthy reminder to build the small (and big) things into your life to ensure that you’re doing everything you can to STAY healthy.

🌟Exciting Update from Black Oak Pharmacy!🌟

Hey there, Facebook friends and customers! 👋 We've been laying low on social media for a bit, but guess what? We're back and better than ever! With the launch of our shiny new website (check it out here: https://blackoakpharm.com/ ), we're eager to reconnect with all of you right here on Facebook!

As we dive back into the swing of things, you can look forward to regular updates from us about special promotions, reminders, health and wellness content, & upcoming events.🌿💊

We are excited to reconnect with you, so feel free to give us a shout out, share our page with a friend, and provide us with suggestions on what type of content you'd like to see.💙

We're also restocking our shelves with health & wellness products, durable medical equipment, supplements and of course, a unique and carefully curated gift and home decor selection. So pop in for a visit, even if it's just to say hi!

We look forward to reconnecting with all of you!

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Black Oak Pharmacy updated their business hours.

As we try to re-establish some sort of normalcy and routine after the trauma of the last week we want to let our patients and friends know that we are here for you.

We are working tirelessly to get our customers and community members their medications and supplies that have been lost in the devastating wildfires of the last week. We thank you for your patience and understanding of our extended wait times and busy phone lines.

We are all in this together! Much love to our community!

Good Morning Friends!

We wanted to send out a message and keep you apprised of what is going on with our pharmacies. Our Shady Cove Pharmacy is currently closed due to being at an Evacuation Level 3. But both our Black Oak Home Medical and Black Oak Pharmacy locations are open.

We ask that this week as we are trying to help out those who have lost so much in these devastating fires that you be patient with us. We are trying to help as many community members as possible, so wait times may be longer and our phone lines busier than usual. We thank you in advance for your understanding.

If you have any questions regarding your medication or supplies please feel free to call Black Oak Pharmacy at 541-773-5356 or Black Oak Home Medical at 541-690-1130.

To our community our hearts go out to all. We want to thank all of the first responders, fire fighters, police officers, dispatchers, EMT's and volunteers that have spent countless hours working to protect and give back to our community during these difficult times.

We are all in this together. Much love to our community!

We're open! We are open today today from 8:00am - 6:00pm.

Happy Wellness Wednesday!

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Hehe. Happy Friday Friends!

Happy Wellness Wednesday!

New Softcover Notebooks in Stock Now!

Doodle or jot notes in this soft notebook finished with an all-over print on the cover.

These sweet notebooks are now in stock at our Black Oak Pharmacy & Shady Cove Pharmacy gift shops.

Time for another Magic Monday! Have a great day everyone!

Happy Independence Day Friends!

How do you plan on spending your 4th of July weekend?

Happy Friday!

Book Spotlight: Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon (Author), Alexandria LaFaye (Author) and Jessica Gibson (Illustrator)

Lyrical, inspiring, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings!

Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share at home or in the classroom.

Although there aren’t many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet.

Soon Sylvia learns how to fly—how to dance—and how to dare to dream.

Includes a foreword from Sylvia Townsend, a brief history of the bookmobile, an author’s note, and a further reading list.

This book is now available at our Black Oak Pharmacy location.

Happy Monday!

Book Spotlight: Moby Dick by Jennifer Adams

Little Master Melville teaches little ones the language of the sea in Moby-Dick: An Ocean Primer. From ships and sailors to squawking gulls and moody good captains, Alison Oliver's brilliant illustrations and Jennifer Adams' clever, simple text will make a sea dog out of any young shipmate.

This book is available at our Black Oak Pharmacy location.

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy First Day of Summer

Happy Friday Friends!

What Do You Celebrate?: Holidays and Festivals Around the World by Whitney Stewart (Author) and Christiane Engel (Illustrator)

Across the globe, every country has its special holidays. From Brazilian carnival and Chinese New Year to France’s Bastille Day and our very own Fourth of July, What Do You Celebrate? presents 14 special occasions where people dance, dress up, eat yummy foods, and enjoy other fun traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. Kids can travel the globe and learn about Fastelavn, Purim, the Cherry Blossom Festival, Holi, Eid al-Fitr, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Guy Fawkes Day, the German Lantern Festival, and more. Each spread showcases a different holiday, offering background and cultural context, vocabulary words, photographs, and instructions for festive projects.

This book is now available at our Black Oak Pharmacy location.

Book Spotlight: The National Parks Coloring Book by Sophie Tivona

Discover your park with this enchanting coloring book commemorating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, featuring the most iconic landscapes and flora and fauna from all fifty-nine national parks, and a foreword by National Parks Conservation Association President and CEO Theresa Pierno.

Celebrate America’s natural treasures—from the gleaming bronze vaults of Arches to the golden marshlands of the Everglades, the shooting geysers of Yellowstone to the breathtaking granite mountains of Yosemite, the fire and water of Hawai’i Volcanoes to the spectacular woodlands and coastal tide pools of Acadia, the spectacular ice walls of Glacier Bay to the salt flats of Death Valley—with this coloring book that showcases the wonders of our land. The National Parks Coloring Book is filled with stunning line drawings that depict scenes from all of the fifty-nine national parks, along with spot illustrations of native plant and animal life, and information about each park.

A must-have for park fans and nature lovers of all ages, The National Parks Coloring Books is reminder of the priceless legacy Americans today have inherited from our forefathers—a precious gift to be treasured and preserved for future generations, from from sea to shining sea.

This coloring book is available at our Black Oak Pharmacy and our Shady Cove Pharmacy Gift Shops.