Effects of Antioxidants on Human Macular Pigments

Exclusion Criteria

• •A history of kidney stones, active small bowel disease or resection, atrophic gastritis, hyperlipidemia, insulin-requiring diabetes, alcoholism, pancreatic disease, or bleeding disorders
• •Exogenous hormone users
• •weighing greater than 20% above or below the NHANES median standard
• •subjects with serum lutein/zeaxanthin concentrations that are more than 150 % of median of normal population (as previously reported in NHANES III at same age group)
• •early age related macular degeneration, cataract, or glaucoma except for those with age appropriate progression of the eye status.