- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA
unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as
He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating
compulsively.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or
OA as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the
compulsive overeater who still suffers.
- An OA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the OA name to any
related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and
prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside
contributions.
- Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
- OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or
committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name
ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films,
television, and other public media of communication.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these traditions, ever reminding us to
place principles before personalities.
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