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It's "the pizza you eat like a sandwich," says Pizza Hut about its new P'Zones.

The corporate strategists at Pizza Hut have apparently decided that eating pizza the traditional way, one slice at a time, doesn't get fatty cheese and meat into its patrons quickly enough. Better to fold an entire pizza in half and turn it into a humongous sandwich.

Each P'Zone transforms a 12-inch (medium) mozzarella-sprinkled hand-tossed pizza crust crust

Outermost solid part of the Earth, essentially composed of a range of igneous and metamorphic rock types. In continental regions, the crust is made up chiefly of granitic rock, whereas the composition of the ocean floor corresponds mainly to that of basalt and gabbro.
 into a calzone-like "sandwich" by topping it, folding it, and baking baking: see cooking.
baking

Process of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries.
 it. You can get the Classic (sausage sausage, food consisting of finely chopped meat mixed with seasonings and, often, other ingredients, all encased in a thin membrane. Although sausages were made by the ancient Greeks and Romans, they were usually plain and unspiced; in the Middle Ages people began to , peppers, and onions), the Pepperoni (copious co·pi·ous  
adj.
1. Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See Synonyms at plentiful.

2.
 slices of you-know-what), or the Meaty (pepperoni, sausage, beef, pork, and ham).

The pizza crust isn't the only thing that gets stuffed. Even if you eat just half a P'Zone, you'll take in at least 600 calories, 1,000 milligrams of sodium, and 20 grams of fat (10 of them saturated--half a day's worth). Go for the Meaty and you can make it three-quarters of a day's artery artery, blood vessel that conveys blood away from the heart. Except for the pulmonary artery, which carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the tissues.  gunk plus 730 calories.

Of course, if Pizza Hut has its way, you'll scarf down the whole thing. "So big, we dare you to eat it alone," say the ads.

We've got a better dare: Turn your local Pizza Hut into a No P'Zone Zone.

Pizza Hut: (800) 948-8488.
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Title Annotation:Pizza Hut P'Zones high in fat and sodium
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2002
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