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1 year ago
in 2007/07/29/the-daily-plate/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Hello Everyone!
If you are interested in the social networking diet/healthy lifestyle category, you might also want to check out SparkPeople.com
SparkPeople has well over 1 million members and 70 million page views per month with huge growth rates. Comscore ranks SparkPeople the 4th or 5th largest health site by page views and Hitwise ranks it the second largest diet site by site visits - with about 6 million total visits per month.
BUT, the best part is the large number of people making a healthy lifestyle change every day in our social networking community. Here's an example of the comments we get on a daily basis:
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THANK YOU! I wanted to let you know how much this site has helped me. I have been on every DIET on the market. I still have weight to lose, not sure how much, I decided not to set a final goal. I want to keep going until I feel healthy and look healthy. I have lost 56 pounds since starting on SPARKPEOPLE on January 15, 2007. But most importantly, I wanted to share some amazing numbers with you.
The first number is from 1/11/07 and second numbers 7/15/07
Total Cholestrol was 322 -- 191
My Tryglycerides 247 -- 98
HDL "Good" Chol. 67 -- 53
LDL "Bad" chols 206 -- 118
I am proud to say that this amazing decrease is NOT due to any medication, but to healthy eating and exercise. Which I would have never been able to do without SPARKPEOPLE. The support and motivation from members of my teams has helped me in so many ways.
THANK YOU for this wonderful site !
*****
Make your life an adventure!
Chris/SparkGuy
SparkPeople Founder & CEO
If you are interested in the social networking diet/healthy lifestyle category, you might also want to check out SparkPeople.com
SparkPeople has well over 1 million members and 70 million page views per month with huge growth rates. Comscore ranks SparkPeople the 4th or 5th largest health site by page views and Hitwise ranks it the second largest diet site by site visits - with about 6 million total visits per month.
BUT, the best part is the large number of people making a healthy lifestyle change every day in our social networking community. Here's an example of the comments we get on a daily basis:
*****
THANK YOU! I wanted to let you know how much this site has helped me. I have been on every DIET on the market. I still have weight to lose, not sure how much, I decided not to set a final goal. I want to keep going until I feel healthy and look healthy. I have lost 56 pounds since starting on SPARKPEOPLE on January 15, 2007. But most importantly, I wanted to share some amazing numbers with you.
The first number is from 1/11/07 and second numbers 7/15/07
Total Cholestrol was 322 -- 191
My Tryglycerides 247 -- 98
HDL "Good" Chol. 67 -- 53
LDL "Bad" chols 206 -- 118
I am proud to say that this amazing decrease is NOT due to any medication, but to healthy eating and exercise. Which I would have never been able to do without SPARKPEOPLE. The support and motivation from members of my teams has helped me in so many ways.
THANK YOU for this wonderful site !
*****
Make your life an adventure!
Chris/SparkGuy
SparkPeople Founder & CEO
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I tried sparkpeople and several others (I did a little review on http://tinyurl.com/28rtws including fitday.com, traineo.com, sparkpeople.com, thedailyplate.com, calorieking.com, and calorie-count.com) and I liked many of their interfaces MORE than thedailyplate
BUT
Thedailyplate has, BY FAR THE BIGGEST FOOD DATABASE!!!
If sparkpeople had a parallel or even close food data base I'd be using it for the better interface and group support elements plus it's a cleaner, faster site to use -- but it's simply not as accurate or as easy because it doesn't have all the foods that thedailyplate does.
I use thedailyplate as a score card for The Hackers Diet - "How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition" - which is GREAT (I'm down nearly 50 lbs over 7 months) though it's basically calorie counting (which works well for me and many others, but not for everyone, like any diet I suppose).
Check it out at:
www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet or google it, many positive reviews.