Book Description Publication Date: September 30, 2014 The third edition of Overeaters Anonymous, OA's Brown Book, includes forty never-before-published, personal stories by recovering OA members from around the world; the founder's story; the complete text of "Our Invitation to You; an all-new Appendix, "The Role of a Plan of Eating in Recovery from Compulsive Eating" by a dietitian specializing in addictive and compulsive eating disorders; the book's original three appendices,"A Disease of the Mind," "A Disease of the Body," and "A Disease of the Spirit"; and a new Forward by an eating-disorder treatment professional.