Deep threat

Nutrition Action Healthletter, July-August, 2005

Want some "legendary restaurant pizza from your own oven"? Uno, which calls itself 'The Original Chcago Pizzeria," now sells its Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza in supermarket refrigerator cases nationwide.

Lucky you.

Now you can tuck into a slice of pizza that delivers 410 calories and eight grams of saturated fat--40 percent of a day's worth--and never have to get off your couch. And you don't have to pay extra for the 860 milligrams of sodium that makes Uno's a double whammy to your arteries.

The catch is that many people won't stop after one slice (a fifth of a not-terribly-large pie). At Uno's restaurants, each diner gets half of a (slightly larger) pizza to inhale on his or her own. The numbers on the package are for the government's five-ounce serving size, which might apply to some children under 8 and some women over 80.

But most people are likely to polish off at least half a pie. That brings the damage to 1,030 calories and 20 grams of sat fat seasoned with 2,150 mg of sodium. It's almost like having two Big Macs ... make that four if you finish off the whole pie.

Deep-dish pizzas are always more of a load on your body parts than thin-crust. But with Uno's pizzas, your coronary arteries are in deep mozzarella, too.

Uno: (617) 323-9200.