Benefits

• According to everydiet.org, SparkPeople's main appeal is that it's a free service. In addition, the site offers opportunities for customization for every person's interests and lifestyles; for instance, its nutritional tracker bases the daily calorie intake off the individual BMI of the user.
  
  

Tools

• SparkPeople provides many different tools to track fitness objectives and accomplishments. For example, users can track daily intake of water and calories consumed as well as calories burned.
  
  

Motivation

• SparkPeople is one of the few fitness sites that offers social networking in the form of blogs, forums and situational groups. Such networking can help keep members motivated. Each member also has the option to publish a public profile to serve as a diet diary.
  
  

Resources

• In addition to the wide variety of tools provided, SparkPeople.com provides access to a number of free nutritional and health articles. The site also contains videos of recommended exercises as well as information on high-priority conditions related to obesity.
  
  

Recipes

• SparkPeople.com's sister site, SparkRecipe.com, includes nearly 200,000 nutritional recipes available to all members of the provided service. This site also provides user-friendly tools enabling members to search recipes by many different qualifiers, such as diet plan (low-carb, fat-free, etc), time needed for preparation or the occasion for which the recipe is sought.