Scientists discover pizza calms anxious fans when watching football
It’s good news for anxious footie fans - after scientists revealed pizza can reduce nervousness during a game. While enduring a compilation of nerve-wracking football moments, Pitch Side podcast host, Theo Baker, had his blood pressure and heartrate monitored. His Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) - a test which determined his emotional state - was also closely checked. Without pizza Theo’s levels were up and down, spiking several times - however they were consistently lower once he started to smell a pizza bubbling away in the oven. And his feelings of calmness were maintained once he finally got to enjoy a slice of the stuffed crust salt and pepper chicken pizza. Professor Oli Buckley, from the University of East Anglia, who worked on the study with the UK’s number one selling frozen pizza brand, Chicago Town, said: “Pizza and football go hand-in-hand.
