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Chocolate gifts are perfect for all holidays and special occasions. Chocolate gifts are always welcome whether it's for a close friend, family member, co-worker or as a corporate gift.

Show Your Adoration with Heavenly Chocolate Baskets by Adorable Gift Baskets. Chocolate baskets bring mouth-watering delight to any chocolate lover. When seeking that perfect gift for the holidays, birthdays, or any other occasion, consider a heavenly chocolate gift basket by Adorable Gift Baskets. Chocolate makes a great comfort food in times of bereavement, a fun gift for parties and holiday events, or a wonderful personal gift to express your adoration for a friend or loved one.

One specialty chocolate basket your friend will adore is our Godiva Chocolate Connoisseur gift basket. Your loved one will appreciate your thoughtfulness as they devour its delectable chocolate goodies including assorted truffles, hot cocoa, assorted chocolates, signature biscuits, dark chocolate caramel bar, and chocolate strawberries.

For Christmas gifts, share the joy of the season with our Ghirardelli Holiday Chocolate basket. This charming holiday basket swells with Ghirardelli snacks such as dark chocolate squares, milk chocolate with caramel, peppermint hot chocolate mix, and more. All these come neatly arranged in a decorative candy dish. Adorable Gift Baskets also has a number of other Ghirardelli chocolate baskets, gift towers, and gift boxes.

Our Rocky Mountain Chocolate basket will astound business clients or employees as a corporate gift idea. It's also great as a bereavement gift, a baby shower or wedding shower gift, a get well present, or any time you want to spread cheer with delish chocolates. Want to surprise your spouse or lover on Valentine's Day? Say "I Love You" with chocolate baskets by Adorable Gift Baskets. Our Talk Chocolate to Me basket can show your passion like no other gift with yummy chocolate cookies, truffles, toffee, and other fine creations.

Chocolate baskets by Adorable Gift Baskets can help you please any friend or loved one by giving a basket filled with goodies they crave the most. All our chocolates have a superb flavor that your recipient will treasure. Browse our affordable chocolate basket selection today and look for free ground shipping offers to save even more!

Does Chocolate Prevent Heart Attacks? Will a chocolate bar a day keep heart attacks away?

The candy industry keeps trying to convince us that chocolate is a health food by sponsoring and publicizing studies. One of the latest, in the medical journal Hypertension (July, 2005), shows that eating dark chocolate lowers high blood pressure. Jeffrey B. Blumberg, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University, gave 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for 15 days to 20 people with high blood pressure. Their systolic blood pressure dropped by an average of 11mm.

Researchers at the University of California at Davis reviewed a number of recent studies on chocolate and its health benefits (The Journal of the American Dietetic Association, February 2003.) They found that flavan-3-ols, the main flavonoids found in cocoa, are associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. The article goes on to say that cocoa contains the same nutrients found in other plant foods, including minerals and specific antioxidants that help ward off diseases such as heart disease. In addition, oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat also found in olive oil, makes up one-third of the fat in chocolate and has been shown to be beneficial for heart health.

Europeans living in the 17th century also believed in chocolate's healing powers. They said it "comforted the liver, aided in digestion and made one happy and strong." Chocolate was used for stimulating the kidneys and treating anemia, tuberculosis, fever and gout; and was reported to strengthen the heart and relieve heart pain.

Cocoa beans are loaded with flavonoids, the antioxidants found in all fruits, vegetables whole grains, beans and other seeds, and antioxidants do lower blood pressure. However, dark chocolate by itself is bitter, so candy makers add lots of sugar and fat to make it taste good. Sugar raises blood sugar to damage cells in diabetics, and one third of Americans are or will become diabetic. Fat is a dense source of calories that makes fat people fatter. So the old adage: "If it tastes good, it must be bad." still holds for most of us. Chocolate tastes good because of the added sugar and fat.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com