And of course, the massive rise in recent decades of diabetes, heart problems and cancer of the digestive tract have been linked to the huge increase in sugar consumption in the rich world over recent decades.
The demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago has also been linked to the collision of a huge cosmic object with Earth, so all chicken littles should start scanning the skies with renewed anxiety.
Rather, most of the small earthquakes have been linked to injection wells, which dispose of huge quantities of water used to flush out oil and gas in extraction operations.
For example, F13A1 has been linked to two DM2 related diseases, obesity and inflammation, according to the HuGe knowledge base.
The trouble is, triclosan has been linked to health problems in humans, and overuse of this antibacterial is breeding resistant bacteria, which is a huge public health concern.
Sticking to the chest, the huge breastbone of birds is linked to the huge flight muscles that anchor there, but this is also, albeit rather smaller, a feature of the more bird-like dinosaurs.
This time, the event was linked to a huge shape-shifting pool of warm water that became known as the Blob.
It felt strangely familiar, but this time it wasn't Ebola making headlines around the world, it was Zika – a mosquito-borne virus being linked to a huge spike in the number of babies in Brazil born with brain defects.
The grow-your-own movement is linked to the huge expansion of farmers' markets over the past decade, as well as the calls for better labelling by supermarkets, better deals for small farmers, and greater awareness of food miles.
Speaking of being linked to something huge, Norrie and Joe go on a search for the missing egg.
