Sheila Rodwell OBE  known professionally by her first married name Sheila Bingham, was a British

United Kingdom

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 nutritional epidemiologist known for conducting detailed studies into clarify the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of different diets on health and disease, especially cancer.

Born in St Albans

St Albans

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, she was educated at Loughborough High School

Loughborough High School

Loughborough High School, also known simply as LHS, is a selective, independent, fee-paying British Public School for girls in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is one of three Private Schools known collectively as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough Grammar School for...

 and Queen Elizabeth College

Queen Elizabeth College

Queen Elizabeth College had its origins in the Ladies' Department of King's College London, England, opened in 1885. The first King's 'extension' lectures for ladies were held at Richmond in 1871, and from 1878 in Kensington, with chaperones in attendance.In 1881, the Council resolved 'to...

, and she was a professor at the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit

Dunn Human Nutrition Unit

The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit is an institution of the Medical Research Council based at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital site in Cambridge, England...

 in Cambridge

Cambridge

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. She married Roger Bingham

Roger Bingham

Roger Bingham is a British science communicator, writer, and public television producer and host. He is co-founder and director of The Science Network and creator of the Beyond Belief conferences. Bingham created the KCET Science and Society Unit...

in 1970; in 2000 she married Simon Rodwell.

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