Two groups the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the report earlier this month.

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Hanging in Robert Johnson's den at home is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden.

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According to the most recent report by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mississippi had the nation's highest rate of obesity.

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One of Frank Johnson's admirers was Robert Kennedy, one of America's political Kennedys (and the son of a presidential candidate assassinated in 1968) .

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