Health Embrace

Not a bad way to start Mondays, there’s usually at least 4 of us so there’s plenty of laughs. Pic taken at 6.30 just as the sun rose & minutes before we got in 😊🌅🌊🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️
Question now is how long will we continue!?

Back running my Sports Nutriton module on the Sport Science degree on Friday mornings 😊

Lecture 1 a few basics and then on to workshops to keep it all relevant to industry…

Exciting times in public health 😊 The government have announced that junk food advertising is to be banned pre watershed on TV in the UK and fully banned online!! From Oct 01 next year. This will help to protect children from the over exposure to unhealthy food advertising, that has been shown to shape their future relationship with food…

Back from lovely summer holidays trips to a weekend of treats & liveliness with my sister’s & daughter’s Godmother/ long time super pal from my days living in Sydney 😊❤️

Kyla’s GCSE cheer squad! Floating heads 😳😂😂 swimming in the rain at a very brilliant Box Sea Palling 🌧️💧🌊🥵

Hope you’ve all had a fab one. Andrea

Trip out for my daughter to play Cambridgeshire.. A bit of Health Embrace workshop planning completed, short run done & van cleaned 😊❤️🙌 🏏🚐 Love the summer hols with the kiddiwinks 😊
Andrea

Getting the sport fix whilst away.. Brazil v Spain women at the Olympics 😊❤️⚽️

We began a long term active nutrition programme for a new school last week which started with my drop in session for parents, then reception workshops outside 😀🌞Today I had lots of fun running the workshops on hydration for 1 year group before I’m back to Public Health mid week.

The Health Embrace work continues through this week & next with practical nutrition sessions in the kitchen…. Then planning for September and onwards 🙌

Nutrition work life is a balance as always and things are good..

Andrea

Fab to read more about funded Chefs in Schools programmes in the newsletter from my Riverford veg box! ‘In the current food and health policy vacuum, this inititaive represents a crucial step towards ensuring every child enjoys the benefits of a fresh vegetable rich diet. It’s about more than feeding children; it’s about teaching them the value of good, wholesome food… ‘

❤️🖤

Nourishing Norfolk Growers Launched | Norfolk Community Foundation Donating food to a Nourishing Norfolk food hub helps keep your community healthy with locally grown food

Oh to be on a nutrition related call looking at this box that arrived for my daughter 🤣😋
My thinking is always why have sugar hidden in a yoghurt daily, when you could enjoy it more in an occasional cake 🤞🤞😳😊

Over the years I’ve worked with all levels/ ages of youth athletes, their families, coaches, schools and clubs to support health, mental wellbeing and even performance as examples. I have the opportunity to apply for some funding support to run a community based sports nutrition project and I have a gazillion fun ideas of how it could work and the key areas of support needed to enhance participation for some groups, energy level on game day for others and even the fun factor in general.

If you might be happy to help me in the early stages of development, please let me know? All chatting through of ideas very welcome, things are always better with others 😊Perhaps you could dedicate a really small bit of your time to support me in truly understanding the need out there? Maybe even in another advisory capacity, or you might be all in from the early stages... Do you rock at admin/ spreadsheets etc. I can assure you it’d be really worthwhile 😊😊❤️ Thanks, Andrea

Well worth a read

How do processed foods affect the gut-brain axis? - Quadram Institute How research is exploring links between certain processed foods and the microbiota-gut-axis

So proud of this one, making a difference, inspiring, engaging and empowering other girls ❤️😊 It’s her 2nd year in her role as an England Football Gamechanger. She’s leading another girl’s football festival she planned ( with her lovely friend Addi, the other ambassador selected for our area) for the Norwich East primary schools today 😊❤️❤️⚽️

Awesome mentoring from 😍

Who’s in? 🏃‍♀️ An old running blog from me..

Guest blog: Simple changes you can make to your diet ahead of training In the first of this monthly series, Andrea Carroll Langan – a sports nutritionist and Run Norwich participant – shares a few tips on embracing simple dietary strategies to support your body (and mind!) as you start to think about training.

We've talked about it before and we'll talk about it again - have you downloaded BanktheFood yet...? We update it every week, based on our stock needs and its been SO useful to direct people to what we do (and don't!) need each week. Thank you to all who already use it AND to those who donate 🙏

Oooh what a lovely day yesterday 😊🙌 My talk was in the morning so I got to join in 😊🧘‍♀️🙌

Fun day out supporting my oldest 🙌⚽️😊 Next up packing for talking all things nutrition at a brand new Women’s health retreat in Norwich tomorrow. Pics to follow as I know it’ll be fab ❤️🧘‍♀️

I only have a few days left working now, so wishing you all a fabulous break, if I don't see you before...
I'm always game for a proper chat with lovely real faces and voices, oldie style, obvs! But over and out on socials until NY😍😆

Andrea xx

Love this! Brilliant day out for them and some absolutely awesome, speedy running from my littlest and friends 😁

All the fun in the sports lab for those on the Sports Science Degree.

Getting to experience some VO2 Max testing with the students on my Fri am Sports Nutrition module 😊

Sometimes you just have to down your tools and catch up later... Lucky WFH timing today! At 8ish I got asked to be a helper at actually my fave EVER school's event - the primary XC! How could I resist that at the last minute 😁 I'd been for years with my oldest 2 but today I got to soak up the lovely, supportive, cheering vibe with my littlest little boy (and his lovely friends and full school team) in his 1st ever XC running comp 😍🥰

He was absolutely awesome and thoroughly rocked it through to the Norfolk County final next week (all those years keeping up in life with sporty big siblings make you both determined and really fast, clearly🤣).

Andrea

U10 girls FA referee, day 1 & U16 NCFC Academy player, day 2
Great pics & a goal caught on camera in comments below from ⚽️🙌 Fun start to 1/2 term for my oldest 😍 Middle boy playing in London later 🚝💛💚

Morning 😊🥶🏊

Health Embrace turned 10 in September! I’ve therefore been reflecting a lot on my next steps towards making a bigger positive impact in preventative health and behaviour change. With this in mind, I’m delighted to say I’ve taken on a new role in Public Health where I’ll be the nutrition lead on a 12-month strategy project (part-time of course, as I also love working in and growing Health Embrace) aiming to better understand what’s happening generally in the fields of nutrition and preventative health by evaluating things like the emerging evidence base, challenges faced and wins in communities. This will ultimately inform the nutrition strategies in Norfolk moving forward…

Wow, what a fabulous decade where I’ve been lucky enough to have plenty of opportunities, while maintaining a great work-life balance when my 3 children have been growing up. As always, thank you for all the support, recommendations, and putting your faith in me to run many amazing school/ community/ business/ sports club projects and provide varied health and sports nutrition advice and training.

Andrea

My oldest far right ❤️❤️❤️⚽️

Upping the breakfast game for a lovely friend's birthday this morning 🏊‍♀️😍
Swimming, healthy shots, sunrise... and cakes 🙌 😊

September and October are busy here at Health Embrace HQ so it's head down for now and updates on the new plans to follow....

I hope you've all had a lovely summer!

Andrea

Sustainability Showcase Day at Norwich City College, where I've lectured a day a week over the last few years (in either Sport Science, Health or Business) 🙌🙌

Some things to follow up on...