SparkPeople was an American private company which developed and maintained several healthy living

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s. SparkPeople operated sparkpeople.com, which offered a free four-stage

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program which used tools, content, and support to help users make lifestyle changes, and sparkRecipes.com, which allowed users the ability to catalog, rate, and share recipes, especially healthy recipes, and gave users the nutritional information about their recipes. It also offered the ability to add these recipes to their daily food log on SparkPeople. On August 17th 2021, SparkPeople permanently closed all their current websites and apps. The reason given was decreased viability of ad supported platforms and increased competition from big companies.

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In January 2013, ''

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'' assessed nine DIY diet plans and ranked SparkPeople 4th, behind

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, and the

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. SparkPeople.com announced on February 15, 2012 that during January 2012 that there were 10 million visitors to the website, making it the most visited fitness and weight loss site on the internet. SparkPeople.com was named the winner of

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's Best of The Web : Health in 2006, 2007, and 2008. In January 2007, SparkPeople.com was ranked by

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as the 6th most visited site in the "Health and Medical - Wellbeing" category (and 3rd among

sites). On August 17th 2021, SparkPeople permanently closed all their current websites and apps. The reason given was decreased viability of ad supported platforms and increased competition from big companies.

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SparkPeople.com
American health websites Weight loss companies

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