12/22/2025
Last Minute Gifts!!!
If you need a last minute gift for the holidays, we have gift certificates available for an easy, thoughtful, "Well Kneaded" gift. We are offering gift certificates for $90 through the end of the year. Please reach out to us to purchase your gift certificates. We can mail, email, or have them ready for pickup in the office.
Fun Holidays this Week
December 21: Look on the Bright Side Day – Quote: "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." --Oprah Winfrey
December 24: National Egg Nog Day – Try this recipe. allrecipes.com/recipe/57028/amazingly-good-eggnog (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/57028/amazingly-good-eggnog/)
December 25: Christmas Day – Merry Christmas!
December 27: Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day – Not sure how to make a paper snowflake? Here are some directions. instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-6-Pointed-Paper-Snowflakes (http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-6-Pointed-Paper-Snowflakes/)
Hydration Recipe
Keeping hydrated is an important part of staying healthy. Water promotes cardiovascular health, keeps your body cool, helps muscles and joints work better and keeps skin supple. Here is this week’s hydration recipe:
Feeling chilled? You can get warm and hydrate at the same time with certain kinds of teas. Did you know both green and black leaf tea add to your fluid intake and help you hydrate?
Get Some Sleep
The importance of sleep and your physical well-being is astronomical. Most of your former bad habits or prolonged issues can be linked to a lack of sleep.
The risk of obesity rises with those with a sleep deficit. A study in teenagers showed with every hour of sleep lost, the risk for obesity rose. But it's not just teenagers, so you can't blame it on the hormones, but wait, yes, you can, sleep affects those too!
A healthy amount of sleep balances the levels of ghrelin, the hormones that make you feel hungry, and leptin, the hormones that make you feel full. If you wake up in the morning starving, blame it on a not so good night sleep. When you're restless the levels of ghrelin increase and the leptin levels decrease. Sleep can also affect insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. Higher blood sugar levels can increase the threat of diabetes.
When you sleep your heart and blood vessels are repairing themselves, and sleep releases a hormone to boost muscle mass. Continued unrest increases your risk for a host of issues including, heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, and stroke.
The good news is physical activity and your nutrition can aid in a good night's sleep. Activity during the day, not close to bedtime, helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Making sure you don't go to sleep hungry or too full and avoiding alcohol and caffeine eases you into a restful slumber.