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Howard G. Smith, M.D. is a former radio medical editor and talk show host in the Boston Metro area. His "Medical Minute" of health and wellness news and commentary was a regular weekday feature on WBZ-AM, WRKO-AM, and WMRE-AM. His popular two-way talk show, Dr. Howard Smith OnCall, was regularly heard Sunday morning and middays on WBZ.

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Trained at Harvard Medical School and a long-time faculty member at Boston Children’s Hospital, he practiced Pediatric Otolaryngology for 40 years in Boston, Southern California, and in central Connecticut.  He is now based in New York City.

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Jan 6, 2019

With the dark days of winter ahead for all of us, here’s a way to beat the boredom.  Try doing the things that you normally do but in a different way.  For example:

Eat popcorn with chopsticks.

Drink water in a champagne glass, a shipping envelope, or lapping it out of a bowl like a dog.

Write and draw with your “other” hand.

Watch a video with finger goggles.

Do a random walk: at each intersection, flip a coin to decide whether to go left or right.

Eat a slice of pizza in different ways: fold it over, eat the crust first, eat from the sides, make pizza into different shapes.

Bet you can think of a slew of other things to try.  If you come up with really great ideas, email me at drhowardsmith.reports@gmail.com, and I’ll pass them along to everyone.

By the way, a study done at Ohio State University shows that these novel ways of doing things are most enjoyable the first time.

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