What is BMI?

Marissa Newman, MD is a board-certified primary care doctor at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients Monday - Friday in Midtown. Trained in New Jersey and New York, she is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physicians. She was awarded her medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. She has a particular interest in managing common conditions, including hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, hypothyroidism, as well as, smoking cessation, contraception, medical clearance, cancer screenings, and routine or travel vaccinations. She has written several publications, including Newman MD, Stotland M, Ellis JI. The safety of nanosized particles in titanium dioxide- and zinc oxide-based sunscreens. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2009 Oct; 61(4), Newman M, Weinberg J. “Pathophysiology of Psoriasis.” Treatment of Psoriasis. Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy. Weinberg, J. (Ed.) Basel: Birkhauser, 2008. 11-21..;. and Newman MD, Bowe WP, Heughebaert C, Shalita AR. Therapeutic considerations for severe nodular acne. American journal of clinical dermatology 2011 Feb; 12(1).

Mount Sinai Doctors, 55 East 34th Street, is a six-floor multispecialty practice with more than 12 specialties, including Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes Education, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pain Management, Podiatry, Urology, and walk-in primary care appointments.

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My BMI is 27.5% at the moment and the user guide of my scale says that I'm overweight which is BS because I'm not fat at all I workout every day. My scale also tells me my body fat and muscle percentages and where it indicates muscle, I'm average and it says I'm high for body fat. Idk if my scale is just dumb or what. I know these types of scale work with electric impulses that sense your bone, muscle, fat and water weight but these are supposedly calculated by the resistance the current meets when it travels up your legs. How's it gonna tell water density from muscle?? Anyone else have a BMI scale and have this issue?