Spark People
Product Name: Spark People
Submitted by: Iva Floyd; Waycross, GA
Rating: 10
Where to buy: www.sparkpeople.com
Description: Spark People are a free online healthy lifestyle community that provides numerous articles on health, nutrition, mental wellbeing, and fitness. Spark People also provides its members with free tracking tools such as weight, measurements, food (including free meal plans) and fitness. In addition to all of this, they also provide its members with a home page (called a Spark Page) where they can journal, share comments, and pictures.
Review: Spark People pride itself on healthy lifestyle changes, not fad diets and wild fitness regimes. The message boards and Spark Team (group-specific message boards, i.e.: 20 something’s, 30 something’s) provide an abundance of support any time, day or night. For people looking to change the way they eat and move and do it in a healthy way with no fads or gimmicks, Spark People is the way to go. If one spends the time reading the articles (which are updated frequently), one can gather tons of helpful and sound information about such subjects as: how much water you should really drink in a day to stay healthy, common diet myths, getting your kids to eat their vegetables as well as how to fit exercise in an already packed-full day.
Criticism: The only criticism I have about the Spark People community is navigation of the site. However, I’ve noticed that they have been recently updating the site to make it more visually stimulating and navigation seems to be a lot easier than it was six months ago.
Filed under: Healthy Stuff, Educational Stuff, Fitness Stuff on October 3rd, 2007
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