1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity.
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  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He is expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
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  3. The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
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  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a whole.
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  5. Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.
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  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.
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  7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
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  8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
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  9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
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  10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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  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.
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  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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