In Asylum "San Vicente de Paul" has been studied from the point of clinical and laboratory-dependent alterations of nutrition, as well as certain aspects of lipid metabolism and liver function in 60 individuals. In this paper we present one aspect of this study. Total cholesterol and lipids have a progressive increase in its serum levels, depending on age. The average values ​​for total lipids are of 759 mgs. percent and total cholesterol of 215 milligrams per cent, being noted that this increase is higher in female subjects than in males. The probable mechanism of the disturbances is discussed. It was found that the sedimentation rate of erythrocytes is accelerated, for men an average of 17 mm was found and for women 19, this increase is probably due to qualitative changes of proteins and lipoproteins, the last to increase with age, and it is possible, it is found associated with nu...