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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A fad for a good cause

Movie Director Joey Reyes accepting ALS Ice Bucket  challenge of Melvin Mangada. He challenged actor Manny Castañeda and PR practitioner Girlie Rodis/
Movie Director Joey Reyes accepting ALS Ice Bucket challenge of Melvin Mangada. He challenged actor Manny Castañeda and PR practitioner Girlie Rodis.

Today’s fad is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

ALS stands for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis described in a website on ALS as “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.”

A friend who has a member of the family afflicted with ALS likened the patient to “a vegetable.”