It is studied how long-term periodical calorie-insufficient and growth-restraining nutrition promoting appreciable life prolongation in the Wistar-line albino rats influences the lipid metabolism. It is shown that diet has an essential influence on the levels of phospholipids, cholesterol, neutral lipids, fatty acids in different tissue cells. The age specificity is observed in all the studied tissue cells. The lipid composition of cells in aged rats with prolonged life is similar to that of young animals of control group.