When you have surgery on your mouth or some type of limitation that would change your normally diet you have to roll with the flow. You may not normally eat alot of starches, such as mashed potatoes, or dairy such, such as applesauce or yogurt, but are forced to when you can't eat anything but soft foods. Sitting on the coach with your stomach growling the only thing you can think about eating is the steak and lobster that you see on t.v., to bad you can't. You are than forced to eat soup ( which may contain a high number of sodium), potatoes ( contains a high number of starches and carbs) which can old even more starches depending on what kind they are. So in the need of trying to help yourself recover, you may very well just be hurting yourself. There aren't many soft green vegetables that you can intake. Plus eating to much dairy can be harmful. We are suppose to eat a healthy diet everyday, so when you are eating to much of one thing in the food pyramid you can harm yourself more than you can help.

-food is food