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To Parents and Concerned Adults:
(taken from the pamphlet "To Parents and Concerned Adults.")

     Does your teen or young adult have a problem with food?  Do you want to help but aren't sure how?  Overeaters Anonymous offers the following questions for your consideration. 
     Many of our members began having a problem with food when very young - forty five percent were under twelve; eighteen percent were between twelve and seventeen.  We have been helping compulsive eaters of all ages since 1960.

  1. Do you find food inexplicably gone?
  2. Does your teen or young adult try to sneak food?
  3. Do you find food and wrappers hidden in her/his room?
  4. Does your teen or young adult repeatedly deny eating "all the goodies?"
  5. Does she/he often eat alone?
  6. After eating does your teen or young adult spend a lot of time in the bathroom with the water running?
  7. Do you often tell her/him to "use a little willpower?"
  8. Have you tried to put her/him on a diet several times?
  9. Does she/he seek food for reward or comfort?
  10. Does your teen or young adult overspend her/his money on food?
  11. Does she/he try to avoid physical and social activities because of weight?
  12. Is she/he routinely using laxatives or water pills?
  13. Is your teen or young adult excessively unhappy with her/his appearance?

Answering "yes" to several of these questions may indicate that your teen or young adult has problems dealing with food - but she/he is not alone.

There is a solution

     Overeaters anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals, who through shared experience, strength and hope, meet to solve their common problems with food. With your loving support - and your teen's or young adult's willingness - our Twelve Steps can offer recovery one day at a time.

     We do not provide food plans, weigh-ins, or professional advice.  We are self-supporting through our own contributions.  OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine.
The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop eating compulsively.  Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry this message of recovery to those who still suffer. You can help your teen or young adult by contacting us.