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GENEVA， Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Two United Nations(UN) experts on Wednesday urged governments worldwide to regulate advertising directed at children ahead of the August 12 International Youth Day.

Warning about the impact of commercial advertising directed at young children that instills at an early age a culture of over-consumption and indebtedness， the experts said that child-directed advertisements may cause unhealthy consumer behaviour to become ingrained at an early age.

"We call upon states to ban advertising， promotion and sponsorship by manufacturers of alcohol， tobacco， and unhealthy foods in schools and in the context of children's sporting events and other events that could be attended by children，" the experts stressed.

The experts， namely the UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Dainius Puras， said that such commercial messages have the potential to shape children's long term consumer and financial behaviour.

"Many child-directed advertisements promote consumption of unhealthy foods with high sugar content and little nutritional value，" they said， adding that unhealthy childhood diets have severe health consequences likely to persist in adulthood.

"Regulating child-directed advertising for food products could therefore substantially improve health and reduce the burden of health-care expenditure，" they noted.

According to the experts， after being exposed to large numbers of child-directed advertisements， children may pressure their parents to purchase items that are neither budgeted nor pedagogically necessary， often at the expense of other important household needs.

Many countries have prohibited television advertising at certain hours or in connection with children's programmes. Brazil， Canada， Denmark and Norway have for example restricted certain forms of advertising aimed at children.

The World Health Organization has also recommended that settings where children gather should be free from all forms of marketing of unhealthy foods. Enditem

ROME， Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index fell for the first time in half a year in July， pushed lower by falling prices for grains and cereals， FAO said Thursday.

The drop in the overall index was modest， just 0.8 percent， but it reverses a five-month trend of rising prices that erased nearly half the ground from a nearly-two-year period of falling prices that preceded it.

Grains and cereals， the largest component in the index， slipped 5.6 percent based on good weather conditions in wheat growing areas in the United States. The drop took place despite a slight rise in rice prices.

Prices for oils and fats also fell， retreating 2.8 percent. But all the other sectors saw prices rise， with dairy prices up 3.2 percent， meats trading 1.3 percent higher， and sugar prices jumping 1 percent.

FAO said with no fundamental change in the markets， it was possible the fall in the index in July could be short-lived.

The next installment of the FAO index， which is based on a basket of 55 goods and 73 price quotations in five major food commodity groups， will be released on Sept. 8.

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