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If your walking becomes "rather sillier," could that change be beneficial for your body? 

Well, yes, according to a new study from College of Health Solutions exercise physiology Professor Glenn Gaesser. 

While wearing metabolic monitors, volunteers in the study perambulated like the ungainly bureaucrats in the Monty Python comedy troupe’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch. The results researchers recorded that suggest super-silly walking can be strenuous enough to qualify as "vigorous exercise," Gaesser said.

Read more in The Washington Post.