Lectins are thought to have evolved as a natural defense in plants, essentially as a toxin that deters animals from eating the plants . Lectins are found in many different plant- and animal-based foods, yet only about 30% of the foods you eat contain significant amounts . Humans are unable to digest lectins, so they travel through your gut unchanged.
Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903, proclaiming, I will build a car for the great multitude.. In October 1908, he did so, offering the Model T for $950. In the Model T's nineteen years of production, its price dipped as low as $280. Nearly 15,500,000 were sold in the United States alone.
Developing the Model T. The Ford Motor Company manufactured its first car-the Model A-in 1903. By 1906, the Model N was in production but Ford had not yet achieved his goal of producing a simple, affordable car. He would accomplish this with the Model T. Charles Sorensen-who had joined Henry Ford two years earlier-describes how Ford had him set up a secret room where design of the new car would be carried out: