Sheila Bingham

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Sheila Anne Rodwell OBE , née Harrison (born March 7, 1947 in St Albans - † June 16, 2009 ), known by her name from her first marriage, Sheila Bingham , was a British epidemiologist and nutritionist.

Life

Bingham was the daughter of a space engineer and attended Loughborough High School and then Queen Elizabeth College , which is now part of King's College London . There she completed her studies as a nutritionist and then worked in this profession from 1969 to 1974.

She then began a scientific career at the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge , where she investigated the relationship between certain dietary habits and chronic diseases. In the course of her studies, she established numerous new biomarkers , including for protein and sugar , that enable her to investigate the relationship between diet and disease risks. Among other things, she examined the effects of phytoestrogens , the connection between increased fat consumption and breast cancer, as well as the excessive consumption of red meat and colon cancer . Bingham was one of the initiators of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, known as the EPIC study .

Bingham, who has co-authored over 450 publications, has held honorary professorships at Cambridge and the University of Ulster , and was a Life Fellow at Clare College . She was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and from 2005 Chair of the Center for Nutritional Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention at the MRC in Cambridge. She also worked as a nutritional consultant for the UK Ministry of Health. A few days before her death, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her achievements .

Bingham, who counted tennis and cooking to her hobbies, first married Roger Bingham in 1970 and Simon Rodwell in 2000. In 2009 she succumbed to prolonged cancer.

Fonts

  • Dictionary of nutrition: a consumer's guide to the facts of food. Barrie and Jenkins, London 1977, ISBN 0-214-20177-5 .
  • Nutrition: a consumer's guide to good eating. Corgi, London 1978, ISBN 0-552-10664-X .
  • The Everyman companion to food and nutrition. Dent, London 1987, ISBN 0-460-03038-8 .
  • Diet and cancer. Health Education Authority, London 1994, ISBN 1-854-48003-0 .
  • Nutritional aspects of the development of cancer. Health Education Authority, London 1999, ISBN 0-752-11100-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Queen's birthday honors list: OBE's list on theguardian.com from June 13, 2009, accessed on July 26, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d Obituary on telegraph.co.uk, accessed on July 26, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Obituary on tandfonline.com, accessed on July 26, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Obituary on timeshighereducation.co.uk, accessed on July 26, 2015
  5. ↑ SA Bingham, JH Cummings: Urine nitrogen as an independent validatory measure of dietary intake: a study of nitrogen balance in individuals consuming their normal diet . In: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . tape 42 , no. 6 , December 1985, ISSN  0002-9165 , pp. 1276-1289 ( nutrition.org [accessed September 5, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Natasa Tasevska, Shirley A. Runswick, Alison McTaggart, Sheila A. Bingham: Urinary Sucrose and Fructose as Biomarkers for Sugar Consumption . In: Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers . tape 14 , no. 5 , May 1, 2005, ISSN  1055-9965 , p. 1287-1294 , doi : 10.1158 / 1055-9965.EPI-04-0827 , PMID 15894688 ( aacrjournals.org [accessed September 5, 2017]).
  7. ^ Obituary on cambridge.org (English) accessed on July 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bingham, Sheila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodwell, Sheila Anne; Harrison, Sheila (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British epidemiologist and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH St Albans
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2009