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.
The results are controversial however because most countries that consume large amounts of rice actually have a very low diabetes incidence, suggesting that if white rice consumption is a risk factor for diabetes, it is much less important than other established risk factors such as a sedentary lifestyle and obesity.