Becoming the Ideal F&I Manager. The call for transparency is giving rise to one type of F&I manager and forcing two others into extinction. The magazineâs resident F&I trainer explains. Most F&I managers fall into one of three categories: those who need an advantage, those who take advantage and those who create an advantage.
Click here to calculate the ideal weight for an infant (0 to 2 years)Click here to calculate the ideal height for children above 5 years old. Today's parent has unlimited access to information on normal growth rates of their child. A full term infant must have an average weight at birth of 3.3 kg or 7 lb 4 oz. Boys and girls have separate growth charts. Boys on an average are slightly heavier and taller than girls, their growth patterns are also different. Boys are usually 0.3 kg heavier and girls 0.3 kg lighter than the ideal weight score.
One-fifth of pregnant women in the United States are obese, and more and more doctors are advising them to watch their weight if they want an easy pregnancy and a smooth delivery. In May, the Institute of Medicine issued guidelines lowering the minimum recommended weight gain for obese women to 11 pounds, from 15. Now, a large four-year trial called the Healthy Moms study is going further, trying to keep obese pregnant women from gaining any weight at all. If they do gain weight, researchers want it limited to 3 percent of their baseline weight, about 5 pounds for a woman who weighs 170 pounds.