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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery
depends upon OA unity.
2. 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.
3. The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to
stop eating compulsively.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters
affecting other groups or OA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its
message to the compulsive overeater who still
suffers.
6. 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.
7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever
non-professional, but our service centers may employ special
workers.
9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those
they serve.
10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues;
hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public
controversy.
11. 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.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these
Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities.
Permission to use the Twelve
Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous for adaptation granted by
AA World Services,
Inc.
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