Seize any chance you get to eat quickly. That was the philosophy most medicine students, including Catherine Harmon Toomer, MD, adhered to when it came to meals. "If you lack a solid plan to counteract it," she says, "unhealthy eating habits can spiral, and that's exactly what happened to me." After med school, things took a turn for the worse for Toomer. By her second year of practicing family medicine, she'd experienced significant weight gain and received

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