Your inability to put down the ice cream, chips and candy may have less to do with your self-control and more to do with the addictive quality of ultra-processed foods, or UPFs. Using the same guidelines for measuring substance abuse, researchers found that 14% of adults and 12% of children were addicted to ultra-processed foods, according to an analysis of 281 studies in 36 countries published in the British Medical Journal this month. Read more at the link in our bio.