Pizza, it might be good for you hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. Italian scientists are researching whether eating pizza carries health benefits. Now, eating pizza most certainly carries psychological benefits as a comfort food, but a new study out of Italy suggests that it might help with rheumatoid arthritis. Also published in the journal Nutrients, the study, conducted by researchers from several Italian cities as well as Providence, Rhode Island, which purports to have the largest per capita Italian community in the US