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Don't miss the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), which are written with short accessible answers and then supported by further more detailed explanations. And not the annotated essay for health professionals on the biogerontology underlying this diet which can be found here.

Welcome to the Catalytic Longevity Carbohydrate-Concentration (CC) Diet

We would like to introduce you to a novel way of eating. We call it the Carbohydrate Concentration (CC) Diet. A high percentage of the millions of people who tried this kind of diet under the title “carbohydrate addict’s diet” found it effective for losing weight. In addition to weight loss, the CC Diet can lead to significant health and healthy-aging benefits for you. A discussion of these benefits for healthy aging as well as how the CC Diet can lead to many of health benefits seen with caloric restriction and intermittent fasting can be found in Jeremy J. Stone’s paper, “Concentrate Your Carbs!”

Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting are the only proven methods for extending lifespan and preserving youthfulness in animal experiments to date. New research has demonstrated that one of the key reasons that caloric restriction works is because of the low levels of insulin in the blood stream that result. By following the Carbohydrate Concentration Diet you will experience low insulin levels for 20 hours each day. You won’t have to give up any type of food that you enjoy eating and will be able to eat normal amounts of food, yet you will still be able to experience many of the benefits of full-blown caloric restriction by having low insulin levels over 80% of the time. These low insulin levels will tend to moderate your appetite and hence lead to lower calorie consumption. The Carbohydrate Concentration Diet is very simple to follow and has only one simple rule: Eat virtually all of your carbohydrates for each day in the course of one meal. More

Healthy Aging Through Dietary Means

This evolving website is currently focused on ways and means of strengthening healthy aging through a class of diets called Carbohydrate Concentration (CC) diets. In these diets, the dieter concentrates his or her consumption of carbohydrates in one meal, eating one or more subsidiary meals with a minimum of carbohydrates.

The creator of the website fell into this pattern, in May 2009, when he began skipping dinners to lose weight and found himself skipping breakfast as well—hence eating only one large meal a day (lunch) plus an occasional snack in the evening.

His weight dropped quickly (by 25 pounds) and his health improved substantially (viz., sense of smell, immune system, allergies, brain functioning). He realized that he was mimicking a kind of caloric restriction—the intermittent fasting form in which mice were fed only every other day. They were experienced about 36 hours of low insulin every two days, but so was he. He learned about autophagy and hormesis and wondered if he were benefitting from them as well.

In the end, he wrote the paper you can read at this link. More

Professor Benjamin Treadwell’s Endorsement

Benjamin Treadwell I have read Jeremy Stone’s article “Concentrate Your Carbs!” proposing the widespread adoption of the concept of Carbohydrate-Concentration (CC) Diets in which dieters restrict their consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates to a single daily meal while avoiding such foods in any other supplementary daily meals.

Such diets are designed to maintain a low blood level of insulin for extended daily windows of time. They are based on two decades of practical experience of the popular Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet (CAD) and on supporting evidence of history and physiology.

But most important, they are backed up, as the paper ingeniously shows, by close relations to the eight decades of amazingly successful research by the scientific community into caloric restriction (CR) and Intermittent Fasting (IF) on many species, including a 20-year experiment on primates.

In sum, this seminal and synergistic analysis shows that there is a unique way to combine human practicality with hard-won wholly-persuasive scientific knowledge on diet.

If this mountain of evidence, coming from so many points of view, is correct—and I have no doubt it is—the CC diet should help most dieters reduce not only their weight but also the risks of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. More

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