results in the progressive aging of the world 39 s population and is accompanied by the growth in age related diseases among which macular dystrophy and cataract take the third place after cancer and osteoporosis according to the recent reports of who oms because cataract and macular degeneration are the main reasons for blindness in people over the age of 55 the determination of the risk factors for these diseases and the development of reliable prophylactic treatments are of great economic importance the effect of diet on the development of cataract and macular dystrophy has been actively discussed in literature the age related eye disease study showed a significant reduction in the relative risk of developing age related macular degeneration in patients obtaining antioxidants for long time however according to epidemiologic data antioxidant supplementation can significantly decrease macular dystrophy and cataract but cannot fully stop the development of these pathologies there is a rapidly growing number of pharmacological agents and bioactive nutrients which have been reported to possess antioxidant activity however the objective evaluation of the antioxidant efficiency remains difficult because of the late detection and individual features of pathogenesis of these diseases traditionally animal models enable researchers to study the effects of antioxidants our recent investigations showed that the strain of senescence.