There is no truth in either of these theories (thank goodness).

But it is comforting to learn - thus putting girls in their place! - that we are all made alike. And that is the evidence of the scientists!

A fully grown man of 11 stones is made up of 88 lb. of water and 66 lb. of solids. The dissection works out like this: -

Muscles and tendons, 62 lb.; bones 25 lb.; skin 11 lb.; internal organs (heart, etc.) 14 lb.

Since the nursery rhyme chose to compare a girl with food, it is perhaps just to 'analyse' a woman in the same way, and this is how it works out.

It has been estimated that woman is equal in composition and amount to one thousand eggs! To equal that amount, three hens would each have to lay one egg every day for nearly a year. Some laying!

Further 'disintegration' established the following startling results: -

A woman is composed of gases, liquids and solids. She has enough oxygen to fill two hundred 36-gallon barrels; enough hydrogen to fill a balloon capable of lifting her more than a quarter of a mile into the air; and of nitrogen there is the equivalent of four and a half pounds. There is also enough carbon to make nine thousand lead pencils; enough salt to fill six salt cellars; enough phosphorus to make eight thousand boxes of matches - that is about forty thousand match heads; and forty eight grains of iron, enough to make five tacks. The water constituent would fill a nine gallon barrel.

And yet, to mis-quote Robert Burns: -
"A woman's a woman for a' that."