About Us. St. Jude Catholic Church is part of the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, and is located in Martin, Tennessee, near the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin. We are the only Catholic parish in Weakley County, serving families in Martin, Dresden, Greenfield, Gleason, Palmersville and Sharon.
It was dueling rice reports on Wednesday. First up, Consumer Reports announcing that an analysis of 200 samples of 60 rice products, including breakfast cereal and rice pasta, turned up âworrisome levelsâ of the inorganic form of arsenic, a toxin known to cause liver, lung, kidney and bladder cancer.
Brown rice is considered a moderate-oxalate food. A wide range of foods, mostly of plant origin, contain various amounts of the natural compound oxalic acid. Your body metabolizes this compound into a form of salt called oxalate, which serves no known purpose in the human body. Consequently, more than 90 percent of oxalate is filtered out by the kidneys for urinary excretion.