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Je ne mange plus gras, c'est une mauvaise habitude.

Je ne mange plus gras, c'est une mauvaise habitude.
I no longer eat fatty food, it is a bad habit.
From Lesson 110:Negative adverbs (ne... plus)·French

Questions & Answers about Je ne mange plus gras, c'est une mauvaise habitude.

How does ne... plus work in this sentence?
It means "no longer" or "not anymore". Just like ne... pas, it wraps around the conjugated verb. Here, it surrounds mange (eat) to make ne mange plus (no longer eat).
Why does gras translate to "fatty food" here?
While gras is an adjective meaning "fatty" or "greasy", French uses it directly after verbs like manger to describe a style of eating. So manger gras means "to eat fatty foods" without needing a separate word for "food".
Why is mauvaise placed before habitude? Don't most French adjectives go after the noun?
Most do, but adjectives describing goodness or badness (like mauvais and bon) are common exceptions that go before the noun. You might remember the BANGS rule (Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, Size) for adjectives that come before the noun.
Why do we use c'est instead of il est for "it is"?
We use c'est because it is followed by a noun that has an article (une mauvaise habitude). If we were just following "it is" with an adjective alone, like "it is bad", we would use il est mauvais.

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