Losing excess body weight is generally not an easy task. One thing that people often struggle with is a very active appetite which causes them to eat more than the body actually needs to sustain itself. It is also one of the things that quickly put people off adopting a healthy lifestyle as they feel that ‘healthy’ suggests some sort of deprivation or starvation! However, appetite control and l...

This paper reviews some aspects of fast decreasing polynomials and some of their recent use in the theory of orthogonal polynomials. 1. Fast decreasing polynomials Fast decreasing, or pin polynomials have been used in various situations. They imitate the ”Dirac delta” best among polynomials of a given degree. They are an indispensable tool to localize results and to create well localized ”parti...