Eating a very salty snack makes you thirsty because it

a. causes decreased ECF volume
b. decreases the osmolarity of the ECF
c. inhibits the hypothalamic osmoreceptors
d. stimulates the hypothalamic osmoreceptors
e. immediately causes more urine output


D

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