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Can't be good just to eat mash potatoes and a few chips for a whole days nutrition would dis effect her?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

For 1 day only?: Of course this isn't a nutritionally healthy food plan for long term, as it isn't sustainable. It provides mostly starch -- and little protein, minerals, or vitamins. Eating this for one day only, though, isn't likely to harm a basically healthy person. If the person is diabetic, blood sugars could be affected.

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Answered 4/16/2016

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