First Lady Michelle Obama has made healthy eating and exercise her signature issue. But, a recent study published by the Sage Journal found that her “elitist” advice actually “shames poor and middle class mothers.”

The College Fix added that the study found that Michelle Obama’s healthy eating program is also sexist.

It’s also sexist, the study’s authors suggest, noting that “intentionally or not, it places the burden of a healthy home-cooked meal on women.”

Sage Journals published the study by North Carolina researchers Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott and Joslyn Brenton. Here are a few of the findings:

Magazines such as Good Housekeeping and television personalities like Rachael Ray offer practical cooking advice to get Americans into the kitchen, publishing recipes for 30-minute meals and meals that can be made in the slow-cooker. First lady Michelle Obama has also been influential in popularizing public health messages that emphasize the role that mothers play when it comes to helping children make healthy choices.

The message that good parents—and in particular, good mothers—cook for their families dovetails with increasingly intensive and unrealistic standards of “good” mothering. According to the sociologist Sharon Hays, to be a good mom today, a woman must demonstrate intense devotion to her children. One could say that home-cooked meals have become the hallmark of good mothering, stable families, and the ideal of the healthy, productive citizen.

Yet in reality, home-cooked meals rarely look this good. Leanne, for example, who held down a minimum-wage job while taking classes for an associate’s degree, often spent her valuable time preparing meals, only to be rewarded with family members’ complaints—or disinterest. Our extensive observations and interviews with mothers like Leanne reveal something that often gets overlooked: cooking is fraught.

Like most liberal politicians, Michelle Obama may mean well, but her proposed policies are a disaster.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/...erican-mothers/

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One could say that home-cooked meals have become the hallmark of good mothering...

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If that is the case, some moms would have been arrested and thrown in jail back in my neighborhood. Some moms couldn't cook to save their ass and dinner invitations were avoided by many of us youts. Some of these broads couldn't even make a hot dog palatable.

Ms. 0 wouldn't understand the ramifications of her activism, since she appears to be unfamiliar with both working and cooking for her family.

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....since she appears to be unfamiliar with both working and cooking for her family.

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That's true, but she sure knows where to find good food....